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Salmonidae

plural noun
Sal·mon·i·dae | \salˈmänəˌdē\

Definition of Salmonidae 

: a family of soft-finned fishes (suborder Salmonoidea) including as generally understood the salmons, trouts, chars, and whitefishes all of which are elongate and shapely and have the last vertebrae upturned

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History and Etymology for Salmonidae

New Latin, from Salmon-, Salmo, type genus + -idae

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