spermophile vs squirrel

spermophile and squirrel both are nouns.

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

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

spermophile: any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
squirrel: a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail

spermophile (noun)	squirrel (noun)
any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops	a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail
	the fur of a squirrel