food fish vs snapper

snapper vs food fish

food fish and snapper both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
food fish	Yes	No	No	No
snapper	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, snapper is a hyponym of food fish; that is, snapper is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than food fish:

food fish: any fish used for food by human beings
snapper: any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters

Other hyponyms of food fish include bottom fish, groundfish, barracouta, snoek, shad, Clupea harangus, herring, sardine, salmon, trout, whitefish, sea bass, tuna, tunny, sole.

food fish (noun)	snapper (noun)
any fish used for food by human beings	large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite
	any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters
	Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots
	a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
	flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas
	(football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback

Difference between food fish and snapper

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