saltwater fish vs whiting

whiting vs saltwater fish

saltwater fish and whiting both are nouns.

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

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

saltwater fish: flesh of fish from the sea used as food
whiting: flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America

Other hyponyms of saltwater fish include bream, sea bream, bass, sea bass, grouper, croaker, 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, weakfish, pilchard, sardine, snapper, red rockfish.

saltwater fish (noun)	whiting (noun)
flesh of fish from the sea used as food	a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus
	any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters
	found off Atlantic coast of North America
	a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish
	flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America
	flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe

Difference between saltwater fish and whiting

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