wildcat vs Felis yagouaroundi

Felis yagouaroundi vs wildcat

wildcat and Felis yagouaroundi both are nouns.

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

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

As nouns, Felis yagouaroundi is a hyponym of wildcat; that is, Felis yagouaroundi 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 yagouaroundi: long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat

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, 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 yagouaroundi (noun)
any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild	long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat
an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field
a cruelly rapacious person

wildcat (adjective)	Felis yagouaroundi (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 yagouaroundi

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