COREGONIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Coregonidae mean? 

• COREGONIDAE (noun)
  The noun COREGONIDAE has 1 sense:

1. soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes; formerly included in the family Salmonidae

  Familiarity information: COREGONIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COREGONIDAE (noun)

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Meaning:

Soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes; formerly included in the family Salmonidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Coregonidae; family Coregonidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Coregonidae"):

whitefish (silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere)

Coregonus; genus Coregonus (type genus of the Coregonidae: whitefishes)

genus Prosopium; Prosopium (whitefishes)

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

Isospondyli; order Isospondyli (most primitive teleost fishes; all are soft-finned: salmon; trout; herring; shad; sardines; anchovies; whitefish; smelts; tarpon)