salmon vs blackfish

blackfish vs salmon

salmon and blackfish both are nouns.

salmon is an adjective but blackfish is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
salmon	Yes	Yes	No	No
blackfish	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, blackfish is a hyponym of salmon; that is, blackfish 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
blackfish: female salmon that has recently spawned

Other hyponyms of salmon include 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, Oncorhynchus kisutch, silver salmon.

salmon (noun)	blackfish (noun)
any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn	female salmon that has recently spawned
a pale pinkish orange color	small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school
flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae	large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America

salmon (adjective)	blackfish (adjective)
of orange tinged with pink

Difference between salmon and blackfish

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