ray vs sawfish

ray and sawfish both are nouns.

ray is a verb but sawfish is not a verb.

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

As nouns, sawfish is a hyponym of ray; that is, sawfish is a word with a more specific, narrower 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
sawfish: primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long flattened snout

Other hyponyms of ray include crampfish, electric ray, numbfish, torpedo, guitarfish, stingray, eagle ray, devilfish, manta, manta ray, skate.

ray (noun)	sawfish (noun)
cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins	primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long flattened snout
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)	sawfish (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 sawfish

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