osmerus

English Thesaurus

1. type genus of the Osmeridae (noun.animal)

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

member holonym	:	osmerus mordax, rainbow smelt,
definition	:	important marine and landlocked food fish of eastern North America and Alaska (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	european smelt, osmerus eperlanus, sparling,
definition	:	the common smelt of Europe (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family osmeridae, osmeridae,
definition	:	smelts (noun.animal)