taxonomic category vs Adapid

Adapid vs taxonomic category

taxonomic category and Adapid both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
taxonomic category	Yes	No	No	No
Adapid	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Adapid is a hyponym of taxonomic category; that is, Adapid is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than taxonomic category:

taxonomic category: animal or plant group having natural relations
Adapid: extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendants probably include the lemurs; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins

Other hyponyms of taxonomic category include Adapid group, Omomyid, Omomyid group, kingdom, subkingdom, variety, phylum, subphylum, superphylum, class, subclass, superclass, order, suborder, superorder, family, superfamily, subfamily, tribe, genus, subgenus, monotype, species, race, subspecies, form, strain, var., variant, type, group Pteridospermae, group Pteridospermaphyta, Pteridospermae, Pteridospermaphyta, Centrospermae, group Centrospermae, Amentiferae, group Amentiferae, Phycomycetes, Phycomycetes group.

taxonomic category (noun)	Adapid (noun)
animal or plant group having natural relations	extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendants probably include the lemurs; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins

Difference between taxonomic category and Adapid

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