OPHIODON ELONGATUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ophiodon elongatus mean? 

• OPHIODON ELONGATUS (noun)
  The noun OPHIODON ELONGATUS has 1 sense:

1. food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings

  Familiarity information: OPHIODON ELONGATUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPHIODON ELONGATUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

lingcod; Ophiodon elongatus

Hypernyms ("Ophiodon elongatus" is a kind of...):

scorpaenoid; scorpaenoid fish (fishes having the head armored with bony plates)

Meronyms (parts of "Ophiodon elongatus"):

lingcod (the lean flesh of a fish caught off the Pacific coast of the United States)

Holonyms ("Ophiodon elongatus" is a member of...):

genus Ophiodon; Ophiodon (a genus of Ophiodontidae)