salmon vs Oncorhynchus nerka

Oncorhynchus nerka vs salmon

salmon and Oncorhynchus nerka both are nouns.

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

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

As nouns, Oncorhynchus nerka is a hyponym of salmon; that is, Oncorhynchus nerka 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 nerka: small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning

Other hyponyms of salmon include blackfish, redfish, Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, blueback salmon, 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, Oncorhynchus kisutch, silver salmon.

salmon (noun)	Oncorhynchus nerka (noun)
any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn	small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning
a pale pinkish orange color
flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae

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

Difference between salmon and Oncorhynchus nerka

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