sunfish vs percoid fish

percoid fish vs sunfish

sunfish and percoid fish both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sunfish	Yes	No	No	No
percoid fish	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, percoid fish is a hypernym of sunfish; that is, percoid fish is a word with a broader 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
percoid fish: any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes

Other hypernyms of sunfish include percoid, percoidean.

sunfish (noun)	percoid fish (noun)
small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies, black bass, bluegills, pumpkinseed	any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
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
the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae

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