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GENUS GONORHYNCHUS

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Meaning:

Slender cylindrical marine fishes lacking air bladders and teeth

Synonyms:

genus Gonorhynchus; Gonorhynchus

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Gonorhynchus" is a kind of...):

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "genus Gonorhynchus"):

beaked salmon; Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus; sandfish (fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand)

Holonyms ("genus Gonorhynchus" is a member of...):

family Gonorhynchidae; Gonorhynchidae (coextensive with the genus Gonorhynchus)

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