Encephalartos caffer vs cycad

Encephalartos caffer and cycad both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Encephalartos caffer	Yes	No	No	No
cycad	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cycad is a hypernym of Encephalartos caffer; that is, cycad is a word with a broader meaning than Encephalartos caffer:

Encephalartos caffer: South African cycad; the farinaceous pith of the fruit used as food
cycad: any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales; having unbranched stems with a crown of fernlike leaves

Encephalartos caffer (noun)	cycad (noun)
South African cycad; the farinaceous pith of the fruit used as food	any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales; having unbranched stems with a crown of fernlike leaves