setter vs sporting dog

setter and sporting dog both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
setter	Yes	No	No	No
sporting dog	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sporting dog is a hypernym of setter; that is, sporting dog is a word with a broader meaning than setter:

setter: a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point
sporting dog: a dog trained to work with sportsmen when they hunt with guns

Other hypernyms of setter include gun dog.

setter (noun)	sporting dog (noun)
a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point	a dog trained to work with sportsmen when they hunt with guns
one who sets written material into type