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GENUS MERLANGUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Whitings

Synonyms:

genus Merlangus; Merlangus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "genus Merlangus"):

Gadus merlangus; Merlangus merlangus; whiting (a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus)

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

family Gadidae; Gadidae (large family of important mostly marine food fishes)

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