UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does United States Fish and Wildlife Service mean? 

• UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE (noun)
  The noun UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE has 1 sense:

1. an agency in the Department of the Interior that conserves and protects fish and wildlife and their habitats; assesses the environmental impact of pesticides and nuclear power site and hydroelectric dams and thermal pollution

  Familiarity information: UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agency in the Department of the Interior that conserves and protects fish and wildlife and their habitats; assesses the environmental impact of pesticides and nuclear power site and hydroelectric dams and thermal pollution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

FWS; United States Fish and Wildlife Service; US Fish and Wildlife Service

Hypernyms ("United States Fish and Wildlife Service" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Holonyms ("United States Fish and Wildlife Service" is a part of...):

Department of the Interior; DoI; Interior; Interior Department (the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849)