Salmonidae

plural noun

Sal·​mon·​i·​dae

salˈmänəˌdē

: 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

Word History

Etymology

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

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