minicab vs taxi

minicab and taxi both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
minicab	Yes	No	No	No
taxi	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, taxi is a hypernym of minicab; that is, taxi is a word with a broader meaning than minicab:

minicab: a minicar used as a taxicab
taxi: a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

Other hypernyms of minicab include cab, hack, taxicab, minicar.

minicab (noun)	taxi (noun)
a minicar used as a taxicab	a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

minicab (verb)	taxi (verb)
	ride in a taxicab
	travel slowly