bawd vs adult female

bawd and adult female both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bawd	Yes	No	No	No
adult female	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, adult female is a hypernym of bawd; that is, adult female is a word with a broader meaning than bawd:

Other hypernyms of bawd include woman.

bawd (noun)	adult female (noun)
a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money	an adult female person (as opposed to a man)