palometa vs butterfish

palometa and butterfish both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
palometa	Yes	No	No	No
butterfish	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, butterfish is a hypernym of palometa; that is, butterfish is a word with a broader meaning than palometa:

palometa: smaller than Florida pompano; common in West Indies
butterfish: small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines

Other hypernyms of palometa include stromateid, stromateid fish.

palometa (noun)	butterfish (noun)
smaller than Florida pompano; common in West Indies	small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
	slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
	any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin