carabao vs water ox

carabao and water ox both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
carabao	Yes	No	No	No
water ox	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, water ox is a hypernym of carabao; that is, water ox is a word with a broader meaning than carabao:

carabao: water buffalo of the Philippines
water ox: an Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal

Other hypernyms of carabao include Asiatic buffalo, Bubalus bubalis, water buffalo.

carabao (noun)	water ox (noun)
water buffalo of the Philippines	an Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal