silky cornel vs cornel

silky cornel and cornel both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
silky cornel	Yes	No	No	No
cornel	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cornel is a hypernym of silky cornel; that is, cornel is a word with a broader meaning than silky cornel:

silky cornel: shrub of eastern North America having purplish stems and blue fruit
cornel: a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers

Other hypernyms of silky cornel include dogwood, dogwood tree.

silky cornel (noun)	cornel (noun)
shrub of eastern North America having purplish stems and blue fruit	a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers