sand cherry vs shrub

sand cherry and shrub both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sand cherry	Yes	No	No	No
shrub	Yes	No	No	No

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

sand cherry: small straggling American cherry growing on sandy soil and having minute scarcely edible purplish-black fruit
shrub: a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

Other hypernyms of sand cherry include bush.

sand cherry (noun)	shrub (noun)
small straggling American cherry growing on sandy soil and having minute scarcely edible purplish-black fruit	a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems