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saltwater fish vs tuna

tuna vs saltwater fish

saltwater fish and tuna both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
saltwater fish Yes No No No
tuna Yes No No No
As nouns, tuna is a hyponym of saltwater fish; that is, tuna is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than saltwater fish:
  • saltwater fish: flesh of fish from the sea used as food
  • tuna: important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks
Other hyponyms of saltwater fish include bream, sea bream, bass, sea bass, grouper, croaker, whiting, whiting, cusk, dolphinfish, mahimahi, monkfish, tuna fish, tunny, mackerel, pompano, blowfish, puffer, pufferfish, sea squab, herring, kingfish, lingcod, bluefish, swordfish, butterfish, cod, codfish, pollack, pollock, porgy, scup, scup, flatfish, rockfish, sailfish, weakfish, pilchard, sardine, snapper, red rockfish.
saltwater fish (noun) tuna (noun)
flesh of fish from the sea used as food any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters
New Zealand eel
important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks
tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica
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