GENUS ACIPENSER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Acipenser mean? 

• GENUS ACIPENSER (noun)
  The noun GENUS ACIPENSER has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the Acipenseridae: sturgeons

  Familiarity information: GENUS ACIPENSER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS ACIPENSER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the Acipenseridae: sturgeons

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Acipenser; genus Acipenser

Hypernyms ("genus Acipenser" is a kind of...):

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "genus Acipenser"):

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 ("genus Acipenser" is a member of...):

Acipenseridae; family Acipenseridae (sturgeons)