saltwater fish vs tuna fish

tuna fish vs saltwater fish

saltwater fish and tuna fish both are nouns.

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

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

saltwater fish: flesh of fish from the sea used as food
tuna fish: 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, 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 fish (noun)
flesh of fish from the sea used as food	important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks

Difference between saltwater fish and tuna fish

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