noun
most primitive teleost fishes; all are soft-finned: salmon; trout; herring; shad; sardines; anchovies; whitefish; smelts; tarpon
• Syn: ↑Isospondyli
• Hypernyms: ↑animal order
• Member Holonyms: ↑Malacopterygii, ↑superorder Malacopterygii
• Member Meronyms:
↑Gonorhynchidae, ↑family Gonorhynchidae, ↑Clupeidae, ↑family Clupeidae, ↑Engraulidae, ↑family Engraulidae, ↑Salmonidae, ↑family Salmonidae, ↑Coregonidae, ↑family Coregonidae, ↑Osmeridae, ↑family Osmeridae, ↑Elopidae, ↑family Elopidae, ↑Albulidae, ↑family Albulidae, ↑Argentinidae, ↑family Argentinidae, ↑Myctophidae, ↑family Myctophidae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.