coregonidae

English Thesaurus

1. soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes; formerly included in the family Salmonidae (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	fish family,
definition	:	any of various families of fish (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	whitefish,
definition	:	silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	coregonus, genus coregonus,
definition	:	type genus of the Coregonidae: whitefishes (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	genus prosopium, prosopium,
definition	:	whitefishes (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	isospondyli, order isospondyli,
definition	:	most primitive teleost fishes; all are soft-finned: salmon; trout; herring; shad; sardines; anchovies; whitefish; smelts; tarpon (noun.animal)