needle-wood vs shrub

needle-wood and shrub both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
needle-wood	Yes	No	No	No
shrub	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, shrub is a hypernym of needle-wood; that is, shrub is a word with a broader meaning than needle-wood:

needle-wood: large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia
shrub: a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

Other hypernyms of needle-wood include bush.

needle-wood (noun)	shrub (noun)
large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia	a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems