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alewife
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun alewife has 2 senses
- alewife(n = noun.food) Array - flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams; Array is a part of alewife, alosa pseudoharengus, pomolobus pseudoharengus
- alewife(n = noun.animal) alosa pseudoharengus, pomolobus pseudoharengus - shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus; Array is a kind of clupeid, clupeid fish
is a kind of fish
is a member of alosa, genus alosa
has parts: alewife
CIDE DICTIONARY
alewife, n.
A woman who keeps an alehouse. Gay. [1913 Webster]
alewife, n. [This word is properly aloof, the Indian name of a fish. See Winthrop on the culture of maize in America, “Phil Trans.” No. 142, p. 1065, and Baddam's “Memoirs,” vol. ii. p. 131.].
A North American fish (Clupea vernalis ) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife , ellwhop , branch herring . The name is locally applied to other related species. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
alewife, n. (pl. alewives) US any of several species of fish allied to the herring.
Etymology
corrupt. of 17th-c. aloofe: orig. uncert.
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