winter sweet vs shrub

winter sweet and shrub both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
winter sweet	Yes	No	No	No
shrub	Yes	No	No	No

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

winter sweet: deciduous Japanese shrub cultivated for its fragrant yellow flowers
shrub: a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

Other hypernyms of winter sweet include bush.

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

winter sweet: medium-sized shrubby tree of South Africa having thick leathery evergreen leaves and white or pink flowers and globose usually two-seeded purplish black fruits
shrub: a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

Other hypernyms of winter sweet include bush.

winter sweet (noun)	shrub (noun)
deciduous Japanese shrub cultivated for its fragrant yellow flowers	a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
aromatic Eurasian perennial
dwarf aromatic shrub of Crete
medium-sized shrubby tree of South Africa having thick leathery evergreen leaves and white or pink flowers and globose usually two-seeded purplish black fruits