flickertail vs spermophile

flickertail and spermophile both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
flickertail	Yes	No	No	No
spermophile	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, spermophile is a hypernym of flickertail; that is, spermophile is a word with a broader meaning than flickertail:

flickertail: of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada
spermophile: any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops

Other hypernyms of flickertail include gopher, ground squirrel.

flickertail (noun)	spermophile (noun)
of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada	any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops