wash-and-wear vs cloth

wash-and-wear and cloth both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
wash-and-wear	Yes	Yes	No	No
cloth	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cloth is a hypernym of wash-and-wear; that is, cloth is a word with a broader meaning than wash-and-wear:

wash-and-wear: a fabric treated to be easily washable and to require no ironing
cloth: artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

Other hypernyms of wash-and-wear include fabric, material, textile.

wash-and-wear (noun)	cloth (noun)
a fabric treated to be easily washable and to require no ironing	artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

wash-and-wear (adjective)	cloth (adjective)
treated so as to be easily or quickly washed and dried and requiring little or no ironing