sunfish vs black bass

black bass vs sunfish

sunfish and black bass both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sunfish	Yes	No	No	No
black bass	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, black bass is a hyponym of sunfish; that is, black bass is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sunfish:

sunfish: small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies, black bass, bluegills, pumpkinseed
black bass: widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family)

Other hyponyms of sunfish include crappie, bream, freshwater bream, Lepomis gibbosus, pumpkinseed, Ambloplites rupestris, rock bass, rock sunfish.

sunfish (noun)	black bass (noun)
small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies, black bass, bluegills, pumpkinseed	widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family)
among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters	bluish black-striped sea bass of the Atlantic coast of the United States
the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae

Difference between sunfish and black bass

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