ARGENTINIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Argentinidae mean? 

• ARGENTINIDAE (noun)
  The noun ARGENTINIDAE has 1 sense:

1. small marine soft-finned fishes with long silvery bodies; related to salmons and trouts

  Familiarity information: ARGENTINIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARGENTINIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small marine soft-finned fishes with long silvery bodies; related to salmons and trouts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Argentinidae; family Argentinidae

Hypernyms ("Argentinidae" is a kind of...):

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Argentinidae"):

Argentina; genus Argentina (type genus of the Argentinidae: argentines)

Holonyms ("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)