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freshwater fish

DEFINITIONS OF: freshwater fish

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n flesh of fish from fresh water used as food

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bream, freshwater bream
flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe
bass, freshwater bass
any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus)
carp
the lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed; can be baked or braised
buffalofish
large carp-like North American fish
pike
highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
sucker
flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws
catfish, mudcat
flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed
perch
any of numerous fishes of America and Europe
sunfish
the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae
brook trout, speckled trout
a delicious freshwater food fish
lake trout
flesh of large trout of northern lakes
whitefish
flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere
largemouth bass
flesh of largemouth bass
smallmouth bass
flesh of smallmouth bass
muskellunge
flesh of very large North American pike; a game fish
pickerel
flesh of young or small pike
crappie
small sunfishes of the genus Pomoxis of central United States rivers
cisco, lake herring
cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward
Type of:
seafood
edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc
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