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ARGENTINIDAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small marine soft-finned fishes with long silvery bodies; related to salmons and trouts

Synonyms:

Argentinidae; family Argentinidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Argentinidae" is a kind of...):

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Argentinidae"):

Argentina; genus Argentina (type genus of the Argentinidae: argentines)

Holonyms ("Argentinidae" is a member of...):

Isospondyli; order Isospondyli (most primitive teleost fishes; all are soft-finned: salmon; trout; herring; shad; sardines; anchovies; whitefish; smelts; tarpon)

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