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whiting
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun whiting has 6 senses
- whiting(n = noun.food) Array - flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe; Array is a part of gadus merlangus, merlangus merlangus, whiting
- whiting(n = noun.food) Array - flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America; Array is a part of merluccius bilinearis, silver hake, whiting, whiting
- whiting(n = noun.animal) Array - a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish; Array is a kind of percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
- whiting(n = noun.animal) Array - any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters; Array is a kind of sciaenid, sciaenid fish
- whiting(n = noun.animal) merluccius bilinearis, silver hake - found off Atlantic coast of North America; Array is a kind of hake
- whiting(n = noun.animal) gadus merlangus, merlangus merlangus - a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus; Array is a kind of gadoid, gadoid fish
is a kind of saltwater fish
is a kind of saltwater fish
is a member of genus sillago, sillago
is a member of genus menticirrhus, menticirrhus
has particulars: kingfish, king whiting, menticirrhus americanus, menticirrhus saxatilis, northern whiting, corbina, menticirrhus undulatus, menticirrhus littoralis, silver whiting
has parts: whiting
has parts: whiting
is a member of genus merlangus, merlangus
has parts: whiting
CIDE DICTIONARY
whiting, n. [From White.].
- A common European food fish (
Melangus vulgaris ) of the Codfish family; -- called alsofittin . [1913 Webster]" Various other fishes are locally called whiting, as the kingfish(a) , the sailor's choice(b) , the Pacific tomcod, and certain species of lake whitefishes." [1913 Webster] - Chalk prepared in an impalpable powder by pulverizing and repeated washing, used as a pigment, as an ingredient in putty, for cleaning silver, etc. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
whiting, n. a small white-fleshed fish, Merlangus merlangus, used as food.
whiting, n. ground chalk used in whitewashing, plate-cleaning, etc.
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