| NOUN | animal | clupeid fish, clupeid | any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas |
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| Meaning | Any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas. | |
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| Synonym | clupeid | |
| 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 | |
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