saltwater fish vs weakfish

weakfish vs saltwater fish

saltwater fish and weakfish both are nouns.

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

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

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

saltwater fish (noun)	weakfish (noun)
flesh of fish from the sea used as food	food and game fish of North American coastal waters with a mouth from which hooks easily tear out
	lean flesh of food and game fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States

Difference between saltwater fish and weakfish

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