NOUN | animal | Clupea harangus, herring | commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific |
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Meaning | commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific. | |
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Synonym | herring | |
Member of | Clupea, genus Clupea | type genus of the Clupeidae |
Parts | herring | Valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific |
Narrower | Atlantic herring, Clupea harengus harengus | Important food fish |
Pacific herring, Clupea harengus pallasii | Important food fish of the northern Pacific | |
Broader | clupeid fish, clupeid | Any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas |
food fish | Any fish used for food by human beings | |
Spanish | arenque |
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