wildcat vs leopard cat

leopard cat vs wildcat

wildcat and leopard cat both are nouns.

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

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

As nouns, leopard cat is a hyponym of wildcat; that is, leopard 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
leopard cat: small spotted wildcat of southern Asia and Malaysia

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

wildcat (noun)	leopard cat (noun)
any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild	small spotted wildcat of southern Asia and Malaysia
an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field
a cruelly rapacious person

wildcat (adjective)	leopard 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 leopard cat

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