boy wonder vs male person

boy wonder and male person both are nouns.

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

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

Other hypernyms of boy wonder include male, prodigy.

boy wonder (noun)	male person (noun)
an extremely talented young male person	a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies