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STURGEON

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone

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Nouns denoting animals

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

ganoid; ganoid fish (primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering)

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

Acipenser transmontanus; Pacific sturgeon; Sacramento sturgeon; white sturgeon (food and game fish of marine and fresh waters of northwestern coast of North America)

Acipenser huso; beluga; hausen; white sturgeon (valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas)

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

Acipenseridae; family Acipenseridae (sturgeons)

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