PACIFIC STURGEON

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Meaning:

Food and game fish of marine and fresh waters of northwestern coast of North America

Synonyms:

Acipenser transmontanus; Pacific sturgeon; Sacramento sturgeon; white sturgeon

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Pacific sturgeon" is a kind of...):

sturgeon (large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone)

Holonyms ("Pacific sturgeon" is a member of...):

Acipenser; genus Acipenser (type genus of the Acipenseridae: sturgeons)

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