caribe vs characid

caribe and characid both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
caribe	Yes	No	No	No
characid	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, characid is a hypernym of caribe; that is, characid is a word with a broader meaning than caribe:

caribe: small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals
characid: any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae

Other hypernyms of caribe include characin, characin fish.

caribe (noun)	characid (noun)
small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals	any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae