menhaden vs clupeid

menhaden and clupeid both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
menhaden	Yes	No	No	No
clupeid	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, clupeid is a hypernym of menhaden; that is, clupeid is a word with a broader meaning than menhaden:

menhaden: shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer
clupeid: any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas

Other hypernyms of menhaden include clupeid fish.

menhaden (noun)	clupeid (noun)
shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer	any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas