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Lepisosteus

noun

type genus of the Lepisosteidae: freshwater gars

• Syn: ↑genus Lepisosteus

• Hypernyms: ↑fish genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Lepisosteidae, ↑family Lepisosteidae

• Member Meronyms: ↑gar, ↑garfish, ↑garpike, ↑billfish, ↑Lepisosteus osseus

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\\-ˈsästēəs\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek lepis scale + -osteus

: a genus of ganoid fishes containing the American freshwater gars

Useful english dictionary. 2012.