SCLEROPAGES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Scleropages mean? 

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

1. a genus of large freshwater fishes of Australia and Borneo

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCLEROPAGES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of large freshwater fishes of Australia and Borneo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Scleropages; Scleropages

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

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Scleropages"):

Australian arowana; Dawson River salmon; saratoga; Scleropages leichardti; spotted barramundi; spotted bonytongue; Australian bonytongue; northern barramundi; Scleropages jardinii (a species of large fish found in Australian rivers)

Holonyms ("Scleropages" is a member of...):

family Osteoglossidae; Osteoglossidae (a family of large fishes that live in freshwater; includes bandfish and bonytongues)