Definition of Genus merlangus

1. Noun. Whitings.

Exact synonyms: Merlangus
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Gadidae, Gadidae
Member holonyms: Gadus Merlangus, Merlangus Merlangus, Whiting

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Merlangus

genus Menippe
genus Meniscium
genus Menopon
genus Mentha
genus Menticirrhus
genus Mentzelia
genus Menura
genus Menyanthes
genus Menziesia
genus Mephitis
genus Mercenaria
genus Mercurialis
genus Mergus
genus Meriones
genus Merlangus
genus Merluccius
genus Merops
genus Mertensia
genus Meryta
genus Mesembryanthemum
genus Mesocricetus
genus Mesohippus
genus Mespilus
genus Mesua
genus Metasequoia
genus Metroxylon
genus Microcentrum
genus Micrococcus
genus Microdipodops

Literary usage of Genus merlangus

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

1. Geology of New Jersey by New Jersey Geological Survey, George Hammell Cook (1868)
"Genus MERLANGUS. Merlangus purpureus. Pollack. This is not a common species on our coast, and when met with, is associated with allied species. ..."

2. The Natural History of Secession by Thomas Shepard Goodwin (1865)
"... is twelve to twenty- four inches long, blackish-brown above, silvery gray below, the lateral line jet black. The genus merlangus has three dorsal and ..."

3. Journal of a Voyage in Baffin's Bay and Barrow Straits, in the Years 1850 by Peter Cormack Sutherland (1852)
"... the skeletons of fishes in a very perfect state, which appeared to belong to the genus Merlangus, a genus very widely distributed over the Polar Seas. ..."

4. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1853)
"... the bib or blind, and the power cod fish or pouting : in addition to these, the whitings genus Merlangus, are also ranked among the cod family, ..."

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