saltwater fish vs butterfish

butterfish vs saltwater fish

saltwater fish and butterfish both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
saltwater fish	Yes	No	No	No
butterfish	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, butterfish is a hyponym of saltwater fish; that is, butterfish is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than saltwater fish:

saltwater fish: flesh of fish from the sea used as food
butterfish: any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin

Other hyponyms of saltwater fish include bream, sea bream, bass, sea bass, grouper, croaker, whiting, whiting, cusk, dolphinfish, mahimahi, monkfish, tuna, tuna fish, tunny, mackerel, pompano, blowfish, puffer, pufferfish, sea squab, herring, kingfish, lingcod, bluefish, swordfish, cod, codfish, pollack, pollock, porgy, scup, scup, flatfish, rockfish, sailfish, weakfish, pilchard, sardine, snapper, red rockfish.

saltwater fish (noun)	butterfish (noun)
flesh of fish from the sea used as food	small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
	slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
	any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin

Difference between saltwater fish and butterfish

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