nourishment vs meal

nourishment and meal both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
nourishment	Yes	No	No	No
meal	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, meal is a hyponym of nourishment; that is, meal is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than nourishment:

nourishment (noun)	meal (noun)
the act of nourishing	the food served and eaten at one time
a source of materials to nourish the body	coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse
	any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times