mierkat vs viverrine mammal

mierkat and viverrine mammal both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mierkat	Yes	No	No	No
viverrine mammal	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, viverrine mammal is a hypernym of mierkat; that is, viverrine mammal is a word with a broader meaning than mierkat:

mierkat: a mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes
viverrine mammal: small cat-like predatory mammals of warmer parts of the Old World

Other hypernyms of mierkat include viverrine.

mierkat (noun)	viverrine mammal (noun)
a mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes	small cat-like predatory mammals of warmer parts of the Old World