| NOUN | food | herring | valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific |
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| animal | herring, Clupea harangus | commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific |
| Sounds | hheh'rihng | |
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| Rhymes | abducting ... zoning: 2044 rhymes with ihng... | |
| Meaning | Valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled. | |
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| Part of | herring, Clupea harangus | commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific |
| Narrower | bloater | large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked |
| kipper, kippered herring | salted and smoked herring | |
| pickled herring | herring preserved in a pickling liquid / liquid (usually brine or vinegar) | |
| red herring, smoked herring | A dried and smoked herring having a reddish color | |
| sprat, brisling | small fatty European fish | |
| whitebait | minnows or other small fresh- or saltwater fish (especially herring) | |
| Broader | saltwater fish | flesh of fish from the sea used as food |
| Spanish | arenque, clupea | |
| Catalan | areng | |
| Meaning | commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific. | |
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| Synonym | Clupea harangus | |
| 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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