calico vs fabric

calico and fabric both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
calico	Yes	Yes	No	No
fabric	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, fabric is a hypernym of calico; that is, fabric is a word with a broader meaning than calico:

calico: coarse cloth with a bright print
fabric: artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

Other hypernyms of calico include cloth, material, textile.

calico (noun)	fabric (noun)
coarse cloth with a bright print	artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
	the underlying structure

calico (adjective)	fabric (adjective)
made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned
having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly