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whitefish

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: whitefish

1
 n
any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring
2
 n
flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere
3
 n
silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: whitefish
1

n any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring

Type of:
seafood
edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc
2

n flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere

Types:
cisco, lake herring
cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward
Type of:
freshwater fish
flesh of fish from fresh water used as food
3

n silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere

Types:
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Coregonus clupeaformis, lake whitefish
found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska
Coregonus artedi, cisco, lake herring
important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America
Menominee whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, round whitefish
a whitefish with a bronze back; of northern North America and Siberia
Prosopium williamsonii, Rocky Mountain whitefish
whitefish of the western United States and Canada
Type of:
malacopterygian, soft-finned fish
any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii
food fish
any fish used for food by human beings
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