minor scale vs musical mode

minor scale and musical mode both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
minor scale	Yes	No	No	No
musical mode	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, musical mode is a hypernym of minor scale; that is, musical mode is a word with a broader meaning than minor scale:

minor scale: a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 2nd and 3rd and 5th and 6th
musical mode: any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave

Other hypernyms of minor scale include mode.

minor scale (noun)	musical mode (noun)
a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 2nd and 3rd and 5th and 6th	any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave