panharing

Definitions of panharing
  1. noun
    any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas
    synonyms: bakharing
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    sardine
    any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
    pelser, sardine
    small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
    schardijn
    small herring processed like a sardine
  2. noun
    valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled
    synonyms: bakharing, haring
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    bokking, kipper
    salted and smoked herring
    bakbokking
    large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked
    bokking
    a dried and smoked herring having a reddish color
    schardijn
    small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines
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