deciduous forest vs woods

deciduous forest and woods both are nouns.

As nouns, woods is a hypernym of deciduous forest; that is, woods is a word with a broader meaning than deciduous forest:

deciduous forest: a forest comprising mainly of broad-leaved trees that shed all their leaves during one season.
woods: the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area

Other hypernyms of deciduous forest include wood, forest.

deciduous forest (noun)	woods (noun)
a forest comprising mainly of broad-leaved trees that shed all their leaves during one season.	the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area