wildcat vs Felis silvestris

Felis silvestris vs wildcat

wildcat and Felis silvestris both are nouns.

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

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

As nouns, Felis silvestris is a hyponym of wildcat; that is, Felis silvestris 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 silvestris: 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, European wildcat, 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)	Felis silvestris (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)	Felis silvestris (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 silvestris

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