pavonia vs shrub

pavonia and shrub both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pavonia	Yes	No	No	No
shrub	Yes	No	No	No

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

pavonia: any of various evergreen plants of the genus Pavonia having white or yellow or purple flowers
shrub: a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

Other hypernyms of pavonia include bush.

pavonia (noun)	shrub (noun)
any of various evergreen plants of the genus Pavonia having white or yellow or purple flowers	a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems