red-berry vs buckthorn

buckthorn vs red-berry

red-berry and buckthorn both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
red-berry	Yes	No	No	No
buckthorn	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, buckthorn is a hypernym of red-berry; that is, buckthorn is a word with a broader meaning than red-berry:

red-berry: small spiny evergreen shrub of western United States and Mexico with minute flowers and bright red berries
buckthorn: a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments

red-berry (noun)	buckthorn (noun)
small spiny evergreen shrub of western United States and Mexico with minute flowers and bright red berries	any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia
North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries	a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments
	an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions

Difference between red-berry and buckthorn

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