GONORHYNCHUS GONORHYNCHUS

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Meaning:

Fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand

Synonyms:

beaked salmon; Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus; sandfish

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus" is a kind of...):

malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)

Holonyms ("Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus" is a member of...):

genus Gonorhynchus; Gonorhynchus (slender cylindrical marine fishes lacking air bladders and teeth)

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