boy wonder vs male

boy wonder and male both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
boy wonder	Yes	No	No	No
male	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, male is a hypernym of boy wonder; that is, male is a word with a broader meaning than boy wonder:

Other hypernyms of boy wonder include male person, prodigy.

boy wonder (noun)	male (noun)
an extremely talented young male person	an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)
	a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies

boy wonder (adjective)	male (adjective)
	being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation
	for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys
	characteristic of a man