saltwater fish vs codfish

codfish vs saltwater fish

saltwater fish and codfish both are nouns.

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

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

saltwater fish: flesh of fish from the sea used as food
codfish: lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached

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, butterfish, cod, pollack, pollock, porgy, scup, scup, flatfish, rockfish, sailfish, weakfish, pilchard, sardine, snapper, red rockfish.

saltwater fish (noun)	codfish (noun)
flesh of fish from the sea used as food	major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters
	lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached

Difference between saltwater fish and codfish

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