clansman vs adult female

clansman and adult female both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
clansman	Yes	No	No	No
adult female	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, adult female is a hypernym of clansman; that is, adult female is a word with a broader meaning than clansman:

Other hypernyms of clansman include clan member, woman.

clansman (noun)	adult female (noun)
a male member of a clan	an adult female person (as opposed to a man)