canecutter vs cottontail

canecutter and cottontail both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
canecutter	Yes	No	No	No
cottontail	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cottontail is a hypernym of canecutter; that is, cottontail is a word with a broader meaning than canecutter:

canecutter: a wood rabbit of southeastern United States swamps and lowlands
cottontail: common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)

Other hypernyms of canecutter include cottontail rabbit, wood rabbit.

canecutter (noun)	cottontail (noun)
a wood rabbit of southeastern United States swamps and lowlands	common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)