Salmonidae
plural nounSal·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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