wildcat vs cougar

cougar vs wildcat

wildcat and cougar both are nouns.

wildcat is an adjective but cougar is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, cougar is a hyponym of wildcat; that is, cougar 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
cougar: large American feline resembling a lion

Other hyponyms of wildcat include sand cat, catamountain, European wildcat, Felis silvestris, catamount, 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)	cougar (noun)
any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild	large American feline resembling a lion
an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field
a cruelly rapacious person

wildcat (adjective)	cougar (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 cougar

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