wildcat vs Felis tigrina

Felis tigrina vs wildcat

wildcat and Felis tigrina both are nouns.

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

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

As nouns, Felis tigrina is a hyponym of wildcat; that is, Felis tigrina 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 tigrina: medium-sized wildcat of Central America and South America having a dark-striped coat

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, Felis bengalensis, leopard cat, tiger cat, Felis wiedi, margay, margay cat, Felis manul, manul, Pallas's cat, catamount, lynx.

wildcat (noun)	Felis tigrina (noun)
any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild	medium-sized wildcat of Central America and South America having a dark-striped coat
an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field
a cruelly rapacious person

wildcat (adjective)	Felis tigrina (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 tigrina

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