salmon vs redfish

redfish vs salmon

salmon and redfish both are nouns.

salmon is an adjective but redfish is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, redfish is a hyponym of salmon; that is, redfish 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
redfish: male salmon that has recently spawned

Other hyponyms of salmon include blackfish, 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)	redfish (noun)
any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn	male salmon that has recently spawned
a pale pinkish orange color	large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico
flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae	North Atlantic rockfish

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

Difference between salmon and redfish

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