adenylic acid vs nucleotide

adenylic acid and nucleotide both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
adenylic acid	Yes	No	No	No
nucleotide	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, nucleotide is a hypernym of adenylic acid; that is, nucleotide is a word with a broader meaning than adenylic acid:

adenylic acid: a nucleotide found in muscle cells and important in metabolism; reversibly convertible to ADP and ATP
nucleotide: a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)

Other hypernyms of adenylic acid include base.

adenylic acid (noun)	nucleotide (noun)
a nucleotide found in muscle cells and important in metabolism; reversibly convertible to ADP and ATP	a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)