wildcat vs kaffir cat

kaffir cat vs wildcat

wildcat and kaffir cat both are nouns.

wildcat is an adjective but kaffir cat is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
wildcat	Yes	Yes	No	No
kaffir cat	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, kaffir cat is a hyponym of wildcat; that is, kaffir cat 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
kaffir cat: widely distributed wildcat of Africa and Asia Minor

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, 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)	kaffir cat (noun)
any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild	widely distributed wildcat of Africa and Asia Minor
an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field
a cruelly rapacious person

wildcat (adjective)	kaffir cat (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 kaffir cat

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