chub vs cyprinid

chub and cyprinid both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chub	Yes	No	No	No
cyprinid	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, cyprinid is a hypernym of chub; that is, cyprinid is a word with a broader meaning than chub:

chub: European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body
cyprinid: soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales

Other hypernyms of chub include cyprinid fish.

chub (noun)	cyprinid (noun)
European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body	soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales

chub (adjective)	cyprinid (adjective)
	of or relating to members of fish family Cyprinidae