saltwater fish vs kingfish

kingfish vs saltwater fish

saltwater fish and kingfish both are nouns.

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

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

saltwater fish: flesh of fish from the sea used as food
kingfish: the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States

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

saltwater fish (noun)	kingfish (noun)
flesh of fish from the sea used as food	any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast
	large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters
	small silvery marine food fish found off California
	large game fish of Australia and New Zealand
	the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States

Difference between saltwater fish and kingfish

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