arenque

Definitions of arenque
  1. noun
    important food fish; found in enormous shoals in the northern Atlantic
  2. noun
    valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled
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    arenque ahumado
    salted and smoked herring
    arenque ahumado
    large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked
    pista
    a dried and smoked herring having a reddish color
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