sugi vs cedar

sugi and cedar both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sugi	Yes	No	No	No
cedar	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cedar is a hypernym of sugi; that is, cedar is a word with a broader meaning than sugi:

sugi: tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood
cedar: any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars

Other hypernyms of sugi include cedar tree.

sugi (noun)	cedar (noun)
tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood	any cedar of the genus Cedrus
	any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars
	durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests