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SALMONID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does salmonid mean?
• SALMONID (noun)
The noun SALMONID has 1 sense:
1. soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters
Familiarity information: SALMONID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("salmonid" is a kind of...):
malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "salmonid"):
salmon (any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn)
trout (any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons)
char; charr (any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus)
Holonyms ("salmonid" is a member of...):
family Salmonidae; Salmonidae (salmon and trout)
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