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Clupeidae — Temporal range: Early Eocene–Recent … Wikipedia
Clupeidae — n. a natural family of teleostean marine fishes which includes the herrings, shad, sardines, menhaden, and others. Syn: family {Clupeidae}. [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Clupeidae — noun herrings; shad; sardines; etc. • Syn: ↑family Clupeidae • Hypernyms: ↑fish family • Member Holonyms: ↑Isospondyli, ↑order Isospondyli • Member Meronyms … Useful english dictionary
fish family — noun any of various families of fish • Hypernyms: ↑family • Hyponyms: ↑Cobitidae, ↑family Cobitidae, ↑Cyprinidae, ↑family Cyprinidae, ↑Electrophoridae, ↑family Electrophori … Useful english dictionary
clupeiform — ▪ fish Introduction any member of the superorder Clupeomorpha, a group of bony fishes (bony fish) with one living order, the Clupeiformes, that contains some of the world s most numerous and economically important fishes (fish). The order… … Universalium
clupeid — noun any of numerous soft finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas • Syn: ↑clupeid fish • Hypernyms: ↑soft finned fish, ↑malacopterygian • Hyponyms: ↑shad, ↑alewife, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
herring — herringlike, adj. /her ing/, n., pl. (esp. collectively) herring, (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) herrings. 1. an important food fish, Clupea harengus harengus, found in enormous shoals in the North Atlantic. 2. a similar fish,… … Universalium
Atlantic herring — Conservation status … Wikipedia
Menhaden — Pogy redirects here. For the United States Navy submarines of that name, see USS Pogy. For U.S. Navy ships named Menhaden, see USS Menhaden. Menhaden, also known as mossbunker, bunker and pogy, are forage fish of the genera Brevoortia and… … Wikipedia
American shad — Watercolor of an American shad by Sherman F. Denton, 1904. The swelling between the anal fin and ventral fin identifies this as a pregnant female. Scientific classification Kingdom … Wikipedia
