saltwater fish vs rockfish

rockfish vs saltwater fish

saltwater fish and rockfish both are nouns.

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

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

saltwater fish: flesh of fish from the sea used as food
rockfish: the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks

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, flatfish, sailfish, weakfish, pilchard, sardine, snapper, red rockfish.

saltwater fish (noun)	rockfish (noun)
flesh of fish from the sea used as food	marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America
	marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone
	the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks

Difference between saltwater fish and rockfish

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