Meaning | Any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas. |
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Synonym | clupeid fish |
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Member of | Clupeidae, family Clupeidae | herrings |
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Narrower | alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus | Shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn |
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herring, Clupea harangus | commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific |
menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannis | Shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish ... / fish meal and oil and fertilizer |
pilchard, sardine, Sardina pilchardus | small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe |
sardine | Any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned |
shad | Herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn |
Broader | soft-finned fish, malacopterygian | Any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii |
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Spanish | cupleiforme |
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Catalan | cupleiforme |
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