pinfish vs sparid

pinfish and sparid both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pinfish	Yes	No	No	No
sparid	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sparid is a hypernym of pinfish; that is, sparid is a word with a broader meaning than pinfish:

pinfish: similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States
sparid: spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth

Other hypernyms of pinfish include sparid fish.

pinfish (noun)	sparid (noun)
similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States	spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth