| NOUN | food | whitefish | any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring |
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| food | whitefish | flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere | |
| animal | whitefish | silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere |
| Sounds | hhway'tfih.sh; way'tfih.sh | |
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| Rhymes | abolish ... Yiddish: 161 rhymes with ihsh... | |
| Meaning | Any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring. | |
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| Region | United Kingdom, UK, U.K., Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain | A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles |
| Broader | seafood | edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc |
| Meaning | flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere. | |
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| Part of | whitefish | silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere |
| Narrower | lake herring, cisco | Cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward |
| Broader | freshwater fish | flesh of fish from fresh water used as food |
| Spanish | pescado blanco | |
| Catalan | peix blanc | |
| Meaning | silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere. | |
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| Member of | Coregonidae, family Coregonidae | soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes |
| Parts | whitefish | flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere |
| Narrower | Rocky Mountain whitefish, Prosopium williamsonii | whitefish of the western United States and Canada |
| cisco, lake herring, Coregonus artedi | Important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America | |
| lake whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis | Found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska | |
| round whitefish, Menominee whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum | A whitefish with a bronze back | |
| Broader | food fish | Any fish used for food by human beings |
| soft-finned fish, malacopterygian | Any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii | |
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