pongee vs cloth

pongee and cloth both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pongee	Yes	No	No	No
cloth	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cloth is a hypernym of pongee; that is, cloth is a word with a broader meaning than pongee:

pongee: a soft thin cloth woven from raw silk (or an imitation)
cloth: artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

Other hypernyms of pongee include fabric, material, textile.

pongee (noun)	cloth (noun)
a soft thin cloth woven from raw silk (or an imitation)	artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers