hurricane vs cyclone

hurricane and cyclone both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hurricane	Yes	No	No	No
cyclone	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cyclone is a hypernym of hurricane; that is, cyclone is a word with a broader meaning than hurricane:

hurricane: a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale)
cyclone: a violent rotating windstorm

hurricane (noun)	cyclone (noun)
a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale)	a violent rotating windstorm
	(meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the southern