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FAMILY ARGENTINIDAE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Small marine soft-finned fishes with long silvery bodies; related to salmons and trouts
Synonyms:
Argentinidae; family Argentinidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Argentinidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "family Argentinidae"):
Argentina; genus Argentina (type genus of the Argentinidae: argentines)
Holonyms ("family Argentinidae" is a member of...):
Isospondyli; order Isospondyli (most primitive teleost fishes; all are soft-finned: salmon; trout; herring; shad; sardines; anchovies; whitefish; smelts; tarpon)