teleostan vs billfish

billfish vs teleostan

teleostan and billfish both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
teleostan	Yes	No	No	No
billfish	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, billfish is a hyponym of teleostan; that is, billfish is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than teleostan:

teleostan: a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei
billfish: elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters

Other hyponyms of teleostan include malacopterygian, soft-finned fish, cornetfish, needlefish, pipefish, bellows fish, snipefish, shrimp-fish, shrimpfish, Aulostomus maculatus, trumpetfish, gar, needlefish, flying fish, halfbeak, saury, Scomberesox saurus, acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish, sweeper, ganoid, ganoid fish.

teleostan (noun)	billfish (noun)
a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei	giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw
	elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters
	primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth
	slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters

Difference between teleostan and billfish

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