plasmodium vs cytol

plasmodium and cytol both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
plasmodium	Yes	No	No	No
cytol	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cytol is a hypernym of plasmodium; that is, cytol is a word with a broader meaning than plasmodium:

plasmodium: multinucleate sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of such organisms as slime molds
cytol: the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism

Other hypernyms of plasmodium include cytoplasm.

plasmodium (noun)	cytol (noun)
parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans	the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism
multinucleate sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of such organisms as slime molds