saltwater fish vs scup

scup vs saltwater fish

saltwater fish and scup both are nouns.

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

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

saltwater fish: flesh of fish from the sea used as food
scup: lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern 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, kingfish, lingcod, bluefish, swordfish, butterfish, cod, codfish, pollack, pollock, porgy, flatfish, rockfish, sailfish, weakfish, pilchard, sardine, snapper, red rockfish.

saltwater fish (noun)	scup (noun)
flesh of fish from the sea used as food	porgy of southern Atlantic coastal waters of North America
	found in Atlantic coastal waters of North America from South Carolina to Maine; esteemed as a panfish
	lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States
	flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States

Difference between saltwater fish and scup

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