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Salmonidae

noun

salmon and trout

• Syn: ↑family Salmonidae

• Hypernyms: ↑fish family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Isospondyli, ↑order Isospondyli

• Member Meronyms:

↑salmonid, ↑salmon, ↑Salmo, ↑genus Salmo, ↑Oncorhynchus, ↑genus Oncorhynchus, ↑Salvelinus, ↑genus Salvelinus

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\\salˈmänəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Salmon-, Salmo, type genus + -idae

: a family of soft-finned fishes (suborder Salmonoidea) including as generally understood the salmons, trouts, chars, and whitefishes all of which are elongate and shapely and have the last vertebrae upturned

Useful english dictionary. 2012.