clupeid (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *clupeid*:
NOUN	animal	clupeid, clupeid fish	any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas

English > *clupeid*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	Any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas.
Synonym	clupeid fish
Member of	Clupeidae, family Clupeidae	herrings
Narrower	alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus	Shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn
	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
Spanish	cupleiforme
Catalan	cupleiforme

HyperDic: clupeid