BEAKED SALMON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beaked salmon mean? 

• BEAKED SALMON (noun)
  The noun BEAKED SALMON has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: BEAKED SALMON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEAKED SALMON (noun)

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Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

beaked salmon; Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus; sandfish

Hypernyms ("beaked salmon" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("beaked salmon" is a member of...):

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