wildcat vs Felis bengalensis

Felis bengalensis vs wildcat

wildcat and Felis bengalensis both are nouns.

wildcat is an adjective but Felis bengalensis is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
wildcat	Yes	Yes	No	No
Felis bengalensis	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Felis bengalensis is a hyponym of wildcat; that is, Felis bengalensis 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
Felis bengalensis: small spotted wildcat of southern Asia and Malaysia

Other hyponyms of wildcat include sand cat, catamountain, European wildcat, 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, leopard cat, Felis tigrina, tiger cat, Felis wiedi, margay, margay cat, Felis manul, manul, Pallas's cat, catamount, lynx.

wildcat (noun)	Felis bengalensis (noun)
any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild	small spotted wildcat of southern Asia and Malaysia
an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field
a cruelly rapacious person

wildcat (adjective)	Felis bengalensis (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 Felis bengalensis

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