kingfish vs chenfish

kingfish and chenfish both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
kingfish	Yes	No	No	No
chenfish	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, kingfish and chenfish are synonyms defined as:

kingfish and chenfish: small silvery marine food fish found off California

Other synonyms of kingfish include Genyonemus lineatus, white croaker.

kingfish (noun)	chenfish (noun)
any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast	small silvery marine food fish found off California
large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters
small silvery marine food fish found off California
large game fish of Australia and New Zealand
the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States