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SALMONID

• 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.

• SALMONID (noun)

Sense 1

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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 troutlike fish of the genus Salvelinus)

Holonyms ("salmonid" is a member of...):

family Salmonidae; Salmonidae (salmon and trout)

"Green leaves and brown leaves fall from the same tree."
(English proverb)
"The nose didn't smell the rotting head."
(Bhutanese proverb)
"You reap what you sow."
(Arabic proverb)
"Barking dogs don't bite."
(Dutch proverb)

Useful links:
Meaning of charr
Meaning of salmon
Meaning of Salmonidae
Meaning of char
Pronunciation of trout

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