tesseract vs cube

tesseract and cube both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tesseract	Yes	No	No	No
cube	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, cube is a hypernym of tesseract; that is, cube is a word with a broader meaning than tesseract:

Other hypernyms of tesseract include regular hexahedron.

tesseract (noun)	cube (noun)
the four-dimensional analogue of a cube	a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube
	any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone
	the product of three equal terms
	a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces
	a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides

tesseract (verb)	cube (verb)
	raise to the third power
	cut into cubes