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  • noun Plural form of grayling.

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Examples

  • Intermittent searchers include octopi, graylings, and mating crickets.

    The Why of Fly Flying Staq Mavlen 2007

  • Intermittent searchers include octopi, graylings, and mating crickets.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Staq Mavlen 2007

  • By the time they had eaten their fill of fresh bread and pickled graylings most of the story had already been told.

    Reiffeins Choice 2006

  • By 50 million years ago, the major branching leading to the whitefishes and graylings had probably occurred, thus leading to modern lines of trout, salmon, and char of the subfamily Salmoninae.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • Today, the order Salmoniformes includes the families Salmonidae (whitefishes, graylings, trout, salmon, and char), Osmeridae (smelts), and Plecoglossidae (ayu) from the Northern Hemisphere, as well as several families from the Southern Hemisphere.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • Thus, whitefishes, graylings, trout, and salmon all have a complexity of genetic material that unites them as a group and distinguishes them from most other fishes.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • Several other characteristics set the graylings (subfamily Thymallinae) off from the other subfamilies of the family Salmonidae: the trout and salmon (Salmoninae) and the whitefishes (Coregoninae).

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • All trout, salmon, and char of the world today can be traced to a time when they shared a common gene pool with white-fishes and graylings—a salmonid progenitor.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • North American salmon, trout, char, graylings, white fishes, and ciscoes of the family Salmonidae are grouped by genera and appear in the order as described in the text.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • The family Salmonidae includes trout, salmon, char, whitefishes, ciscoes, inconnu, and graylings in North America and several more genera from Europe and Asia.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

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