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Argentinidae

noun

small marine soft-finned fishes with long silvery bodies; related to salmons and trouts

• Syn: ↑family Argentinidae

• Hypernyms: ↑fish family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Isospondyli, ↑order Isospondyli

• Member Meronyms: ↑Argentina, ↑genus Argentina

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\\ˌärjənˈtinəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Argentina, type genus + -idae

: a family of small silvery marine fishes related to the salmons and trouts and including the capelins and a few other fishes and formerly the true smelts

Useful english dictionary. 2012.