ray vs elasmobranch

elasmobranch vs ray

ray and elasmobranch both are nouns.

ray is a verb but elasmobranch is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ray	Yes	No	Yes	No
elasmobranch	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, elasmobranch is a hypernym of ray; that is, elasmobranch is a word with a broader meaning than ray:

ray: cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
elasmobranch: any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks, rays, skates

Other hypernyms of ray include selachian.

ray (noun)	elasmobranch (noun)
cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins	any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks, rays, skates
any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish
the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization
a column of light (as from a beacon)
a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
(mathematics) a straight line extending from a point

ray (verb)	elasmobranch (verb)
expose to radiation
extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center
emit as rays

Difference between ray and elasmobranch

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