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PACIFIC STURGEON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Pacific sturgeon mean?
• PACIFIC STURGEON (noun)
The noun PACIFIC STURGEON has 1 sense:
1. food and game fish of marine and fresh waters of northwestern coast of North America
Familiarity information: PACIFIC STURGEON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Food and game fish of marine and fresh waters of northwestern coast of North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Acipenser transmontanus; Pacific sturgeon; Sacramento sturgeon; white sturgeon
Hypernyms ("Pacific sturgeon" is a kind of...):
sturgeon (large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone)
Holonyms ("Pacific sturgeon" is a member of...):
Acipenser; genus Acipenser (type genus of the Acipenseridae: sturgeons)
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