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COREGONUS ARTEDI
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America
Synonyms:
cisco; Coregonus artedi; lake herring
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Coregonus artedi" is a kind of...):
whitefish (silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere)
Meronyms (parts of "Coregonus artedi"):
cisco; lake herring (cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward)
Holonyms ("Coregonus artedi" is a member of...):
Coregonus; genus Coregonus (type genus of the Coregonidae: whitefishes)