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salmon vs sockeye

sockeye vs salmon

salmon and sockeye both are nouns.

salmon is an adjective but sockeye is not an adjective.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
salmon Yes Yes No No
sockeye Yes No No No
As nouns, sockeye is a hyponym of salmon; that is, sockeye 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
  • sockeye: 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, Oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, 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.
As nouns, sockeye is a hyponym of salmon; that is, sockeye is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than salmon:
  • salmon: flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
  • sockeye: fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers
Other hyponyms of salmon include Atlantic salmon, red salmon, sockeye salmon, chinook, chinook salmon, king salmon, coho, coho salmon, cohoe, silver salmon, smoked salmon, kippered salmon.
salmon (noun) sockeye (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 fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers
flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
salmon (adjective) sockeye (adjective)
of orange tinged with pink
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