GENUS MERLANGUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Merlangus mean? 

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

1. whitings

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS MERLANGUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Whitings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Merlangus; Merlangus

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

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "genus Merlangus"):

Gadus merlangus; Merlangus merlangus; whiting (a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus)

Holonyms ("genus Merlangus" is a member of...):

family Gadidae; Gadidae (large family of important mostly marine food fishes)