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SALMONID

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "salmonid"):

salmon (any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn)

trout (any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons)

char; charr (any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus)

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

family Salmonidae; Salmonidae (salmon and trout)

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