bookworm vs scholarly person

bookworm and scholarly person both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bookworm	Yes	No	No	No
scholarly person	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, scholarly person is a hypernym of bookworm; that is, scholarly person is a word with a broader meaning than bookworm:

bookworm: a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
scholarly person: a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

Other hypernyms of bookworm include bookman, scholar.

bookworm (noun)	scholarly person (noun)
someone who spends a great deal of time reading	a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit