fish vs bottom-feeder

bottom-feeder vs fish

fish and bottom-feeder both are nouns.

fish is a verb but bottom-feeder is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fish	Yes	No	Yes	No
bottom-feeder	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bottom-feeder is a hyponym of fish; that is, bottom-feeder is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than fish:

fish: any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
bottom-feeder: a fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water

Other hyponyms of fish include bottom-dweller, bottom lurkers, cartilaginous fish, chondrichthian, fingerling, game fish, sport fish, food fish, rough fish, young fish, mouthbreeder, spawner, northern snakehead, bony fish, A. testudineus, Anabas testudineus, climbing perch.

fish (noun)	bottom-feeder (noun)
any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills	a fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water
the flesh of fish used as food	a scavenger that feeds low on the food chain

fish (verb)	bottom-feeder (verb)
catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
seek indirectly

Difference between fish and bottom-feeder

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