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SACRAMENTO STURGEON
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Food and game fish of marine and fresh waters of northwestern coast of North America
Synonyms:
Acipenser transmontanus; Pacific sturgeon; Sacramento sturgeon; white sturgeon
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Sacramento sturgeon" is a kind of...):
sturgeon (large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone)
Holonyms ("Sacramento sturgeon" is a member of...):
Acipenser; genus Acipenser (type genus of the Acipenseridae: sturgeons)