salmon vs Oncorhynchus kisutch

Oncorhynchus kisutch vs salmon

salmon and Oncorhynchus kisutch both are nouns.

salmon is an adjective but Oncorhynchus kisutch is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
salmon	Yes	Yes	No	No
Oncorhynchus kisutch	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Oncorhynchus kisutch is a hyponym of salmon; that is, Oncorhynchus kisutch is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than salmon:

salmon: any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
Oncorhynchus kisutch: small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes

Other hyponyms of salmon include blackfish, redfish, Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, blueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon, chinook, chinook salmon, king salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, quinnat salmon, chum, chum salmon, Oncorhynchus keta, blue jack, coho, coho salmon, cohoe, silver salmon.

salmon (noun)	Oncorhynchus kisutch (noun)
any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn	small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes
a pale pinkish orange color
flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae

salmon (adjective)	Oncorhynchus kisutch (adjective)
of orange tinged with pink

Difference between salmon and Oncorhynchus kisutch

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