squaw root vs shrub

squaw root and shrub both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
squaw root	Yes	No	No	No
shrub	Yes	No	No	No

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

squaw root: tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally
shrub: a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

Other hypernyms of squaw root include bush.

squaw root (noun)	shrub (noun)
tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally	a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems