saltwater fish vs herring

herring vs saltwater fish

saltwater fish and herring both are nouns.

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

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

saltwater fish: flesh of fish from the sea used as food
herring: valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled

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, kingfish, lingcod, bluefish, swordfish, butterfish, cod, codfish, pollack, pollock, porgy, scup, scup, flatfish, rockfish, sailfish, weakfish, pilchard, sardine, snapper, red rockfish.

saltwater fish (noun)	herring (noun)
flesh of fish from the sea used as food	commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
	valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled

Difference between saltwater fish and herring

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