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COREGONUS ARTEDI

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America

Synonyms:

cisco; Coregonus artedi; lake herring

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Coregonus artedi" is a kind of...):

whitefish (silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere)

Meronyms (parts of "Coregonus artedi"):

cisco; lake herring (cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward)

Holonyms ("Coregonus artedi" is a member of...):

Coregonus; genus Coregonus (type genus of the Coregonidae: whitefishes)

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