herring

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noun

1. valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific;
usually salted or pickled
• Hypernyms:
saltwater fish
• Hyponyms:
kipper, kippered herring, bloater, pickled herring, red herring,
smoked herring, sprat, brisling, whitebait
• Part Holonyms:
Clupea harangus
2. commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
• Syn:
Clupea harangus
• Hypernyms:
clupeid fish, clupeid, food fish
• Hyponyms:
Atlantic herring, Clupea harengus harengus, Pacific herring, Clupea harengus pallasii
• Member Holonyms:
Clupea, genus Clupea