whitefish

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noun

1. any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring
• Regions:
United Kingdom, UK, U.K., Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain
• Hypernyms:
seafood
2. flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere
• Hypernyms:
freshwater fish
• Hyponyms:
lake herring, cisco
3. silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere
• Hypernyms:
soft-finned fish, malacopterygian, food fish
• Hyponyms:
lake whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, cisco, lake herring, Coregonus artedi,
round whitefish, Menominee whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, Rocky Mountain whitefish, Prosopium williamsonii
• Member Holonyms:
Coregonidae, family Coregonidae