wildcat vs European wildcat

European wildcat vs wildcat

wildcat and European wildcat both are nouns.

wildcat is an adjective but European wildcat is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
wildcat	Yes	Yes	No	No
European wildcat	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, European wildcat is a hyponym of wildcat; that is, European wildcat is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than wildcat:

wildcat: any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild
European wildcat: bushy-tailed wildcat of Europe that resembles the domestic cat and is regarded as the ancestor of the domestic cat

Other hyponyms of wildcat include sand cat, catamountain, Felis silvestris, catamount, cougar, Felis concolor, mountain lion, painter, panther, puma, Felis pardalis, ocelot, panther cat, eyra, Felis yagouaroundi, jaguarondi, jaguarundi, jaguarundi cat, caffer cat, Felis ocreata, kaffir cat, Felis chaus, jungle cat, Felis serval, serval, Felis bengalensis, leopard cat, Felis tigrina, tiger cat, Felis wiedi, margay, margay cat, Felis manul, manul, Pallas's cat, catamount, lynx.

wildcat (noun)	European wildcat (noun)
any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild	bushy-tailed wildcat of Europe that resembles the domestic cat and is regarded as the ancestor of the domestic cat
an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field
a cruelly rapacious person

wildcat (adjective)	European wildcat (adjective)
(of a mine or oil well) drilled speculatively in an area not known to be productive
without official authorization
outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices

Difference between wildcat and European wildcat

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