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CISCO

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: ciscoes   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America

Synonyms:

cisco; Coregonus artedi; lake herring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

whitefish (silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere)

Meronyms (parts of "cisco"):

cisco; lake herring (cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward)

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

Coregonus; genus Coregonus (type genus of the Coregonidae: whitefishes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward

Synonyms:

cisco; lake herring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

whitefish (flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere)

Holonyms ("cisco" is a part of...):

cisco; Coregonus artedi; lake herring (important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America)

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