salmonid

English Thesaurus

1. soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	malacopterygian, soft-finned fish,
definition	:	any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	salmon,
definition	:	any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	trout,
definition	:	any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	char, charr,
definition	:	any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family salmonidae, salmonidae,
definition	:	salmon and trout (noun.animal)