Mephitis macroura vs wood pussy

Mephitis macroura and wood pussy both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Mephitis macroura	Yes	No	No	No
wood pussy	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, wood pussy is a hypernym of Mephitis macroura; that is, wood pussy is a word with a broader meaning than Mephitis macroura:

Mephitis macroura: of Mexico and southernmost parts of southwestern United States
wood pussy: American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae

Other hypernyms of Mephitis macroura include polecat, skunk.

Mephitis macroura (noun)	wood pussy (noun)
of Mexico and southernmost parts of southwestern United States	American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae