The Clupea alosa, a well-known fish, of very disputed culinary merit, owing perhaps to its own dietetic habits.
·noun ·sg & ·pl Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American specie...
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·noun ·see Shadbird (a). ...
·noun A lake whitefish; the roundfish. ·see <<Roundfish>>. ...