salmon vs chum

salmon and chum both are nouns.

salmon is an adjective but chum is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, chum is a hyponym of salmon; that is, chum 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
chum: a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish

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 salmon, Oncorhynchus keta, blue jack, coho, coho salmon, cohoe, Oncorhynchus kisutch, silver salmon.

salmon (noun)	chum (noun)
any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn	a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish
a pale pinkish orange color	bait consisting of chopped fish and fish oils that are dumped overboard to attract fish
flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae	a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities

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

Difference between salmon and chum

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