Definition of Coregonidae

1. Noun. Soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes; formerly included in the family Salmonidae.

Exact synonyms: Family Coregonidae
Generic synonyms: Fish Family
Group relationships: Isospondyli, Order Isospondyli
Member holonyms: Whitefish, Coregonus, Genus Coregonus, Genus Prosopium, Prosopium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coregonidae

Cordelia
Cordell Hull
Cordia
Cordia alliodora
Cordia gerascanthus
Cordoba
Cordova
Cordylidae
Cordyline
Cordyline australis
Cordyline terminalis
Cordylobia
Cordylobia anthropophaga
Cordylus
Corea
Coregonidae
Coregonus
Coregonus artedi
Coregonus clupeaformis
Coreidae
Coreopsis gigantea
Coreopsis maritima
Coreopsis tinctoria
Corey
Corfiot
Corfu
Corgard
Cori
Cori's disease
Cori cycle

Literary usage of Coregonidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"... to his gillnets, set some eighteen or twenty miles out from that city, he had a good opportunity to observe and secure specimens of coregonidae. ..."

2. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collectionsby Smithsonian Institution by Smithsonian Institution (1874)
"coregonidae, Cope, Tr. Am. Ph. Soc., xiv, 455. (G. vi, 1.) Salmonidae, Cope, Tr. Am. Ph. Soc., xiv, 455. (G. vi, 1. ..."

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