FAMILY GONORHYNCHIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Gonorhynchidae mean? 

• FAMILY GONORHYNCHIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY GONORHYNCHIDAE has 1 sense:

1. coextensive with the genus Gonorhynchus

  Familiarity information: FAMILY GONORHYNCHIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY GONORHYNCHIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coextensive with the genus Gonorhynchus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Gonorhynchidae; Gonorhynchidae

Hypernyms ("family Gonorhynchidae" is a kind of...):

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Gonorhynchidae"):

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

Holonyms ("family Gonorhynchidae" is a member of...):

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