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