saltwater fish vs flatfish

flatfish vs saltwater fish

saltwater fish and flatfish both are nouns.

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

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

saltwater fish: flesh of fish from the sea used as food
flatfish: sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets

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, codfish, pollack, pollock, porgy, scup, scup, rockfish, sailfish, weakfish, pilchard, sardine, snapper, red rockfish.

saltwater fish (noun)	flatfish (noun)
flesh of fish from the sea used as food	any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side
	sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets

Difference between saltwater fish and flatfish

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