oligo vs nucleotide

oligo and nucleotide both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
oligo	Yes	No	No	No
nucleotide	Yes	No	No	No

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

oligo: (biochemistry) a polynucleotide whose molecules contain relatively few nucleotides
nucleotide: a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)

Other hypernyms of oligo include base.

oligo (noun)	nucleotide (noun)
(biochemistry) a polynucleotide whose molecules contain relatively few nucleotides	a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)