salmagundi vs selection

salmagundi and selection both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
salmagundi	Yes	No	No	No
selection	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, selection is a hyponym of salmagundi; that is, selection is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than salmagundi:

salmagundi (noun)	selection (noun)
cooked meats and eggs and vegetables usually arranged in rows around the plate and dressed with a salad dressing	the act of choosing or selecting
a collection containing a variety of sorts of things	the person or thing chosen or selected
	a passage selected from a larger work
	an assortment of things from which a choice can be made
	a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment