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GENUS LAMPRIS

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Meaning:

Type genus of the Lampridae

Synonyms:

genus Lampris; Lampris

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Lampris" is a kind of...):

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "genus Lampris"):

Lampris regius; moonfish; opah (large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean)

Lampris guttatus; New World opah (from Nova Scotia to West Indies and Gulf of Mexico)

Holonyms ("genus Lampris" is a member of...):

family Lampridae; Lampridae (opahs)

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