saltwater fish vs dolphinfish

dolphinfish vs saltwater fish

saltwater fish and dolphinfish both are nouns.

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

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

saltwater fish: flesh of fish from the sea used as food
dolphinfish: the lean flesh of a saltwater fish found in warm waters (especially in Hawaii)

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

saltwater fish (noun)	dolphinfish (noun)
flesh of fish from the sea used as food	large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)
	the lean flesh of a saltwater fish found in warm waters (especially in Hawaii)

Difference between saltwater fish and dolphinfish

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