whipsnake vs colubrid

whipsnake and colubrid both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
whipsnake	Yes	No	No	No
colubrid	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, colubrid is a hypernym of whipsnake; that is, colubrid is a word with a broader meaning than whipsnake:

whipsnake: any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails
colubrid: mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes

Other hypernyms of whipsnake include colubrid snake.

whipsnake (noun)	colubrid (noun)
any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails	mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes