sambar vs cervid

sambar and cervid both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sambar	Yes	No	No	No
cervid	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cervid is a hypernym of sambar; that is, cervid is a word with a broader meaning than sambar:

sambar: a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines
cervid: distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers

Other hypernyms of sambar include deer.

sambar (noun)	cervid (noun)
a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines	distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers