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FAMILY OSMERIDAE

Dictionary entry overview: What does family Osmeridae mean?

• FAMILY OSMERIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY OSMERIDAE has 1 sense:

1. smelts

Familiarity information: FAMILY OSMERIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FAMILY OSMERIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

family Osmeridae ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Smelts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Osmeridae; Osmeridae

Hypernyms ("family Osmeridae" is a kind of...):

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Osmeridae"):

smelt (small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters)

genus Osmerus; Osmerus (type genus of the Osmeridae)

genus Mallotus; Mallotus (capelins)

Holonyms ("family Osmeridae" is a member of...):

Isospondyli; order Isospondyli (most primitive teleost fishes; all are soft-finned: salmon; trout; herring; shad; sardines; anchovies; whitefish; smelts; tarpon)

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