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herring
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun herring has 2 senses
- herring(n = noun.food) Array - valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled; Array is a part of clupea harangus, herring
- herring(n = noun.animal) clupea harangus - commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific; Array is a kind of food fish, clupeid, clupeid fish
is a kind of saltwater fish
has particulars: kipper, kippered herring, bloater, pickled herring, red herring, smoked herring, brisling, sprat, whitebait
is a member of clupea, genus clupea
has particulars: atlantic herring, clupea harengus harengus, clupea harengus pallasii, pacific herring
has parts: herring
CIDE DICTIONARY
herring, n. [OE. hering, AS. hæring; akin to D. haring, G. häring, hering, OHG. haring, hering, and prob. to AS. here army, and so called because they commonly move in large numbers. Cf. Harry.].
One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea , and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (Clupea harengus ) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
herring, n. a N. Atlantic fish, Clupea harengus, coming near the coast in large shoals to spawn.
Idiom
herring-gull a large gull, Larus argentatus, with dark wing-tips.
Etymology
OE h{aelig}ring, hering f. WG
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