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whitefish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun whitefish has 3 senses
- whitefish(n = noun.food) Array - any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring; Array is a kind of seafood
- whitefish(n = noun.food) Array - flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere; Array is a part of whitefish
- whitefish(n = noun.animal) Array - silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere; Array is a kind of malacopterygian, soft-finned fish, food fish
is a kind of freshwater fish
has particulars: cisco, lake herring
is a member of coregonidae, family coregonidae
has particulars: coregonus clupeaformis, lake whitefish, cisco, coregonus artedi, lake herring, menominee whitefish, prosopium cylindraceum, round whitefish, prosopium williamsonii, rocky mountain whitefish
has parts: whitefish
CIDE DICTIONARY
whitefish, n.
Any one of several species of Coregonus , a genus of excellent food fishes allied to the salmons. They inhabit the lakes of the colder parts of North America, Asia, and Europe. The largest and most important American species (Coregonus clupeiformis ) is abundant in the Great Lakes, and in other lakes farther north. Called also lake whitefish , and Oswego bass . [1913 Webster]
" Various other fishes are locally called whitefish, as the silver salmon, the whiting (a) , the yellowtail, and the young of the bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix )."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
whitefish, n. (pl. same or -fishes) any freshwater fish of the genus Coregonus etc., of the trout family, and used esp. for food.
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