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CLUPEA HARANGUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Clupea harangus mean? 

CLUPEA HARANGUS (noun)
  The noun CLUPEA HARANGUS has 1 sense:

1. commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacificplay

  Familiarity information: CLUPEA HARANGUS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CLUPEA HARANGUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Clupea harangus; herring

Hypernyms ("Clupea harangus" is a kind of...):

food fish (any fish used for food by human beings)

clupeid; clupeid fish (any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas)

Meronyms (parts of "Clupea harangus"):

herring (valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Clupea harangus"):

Atlantic herring; Clupea harengus harengus (important food fish; found in enormous shoals in the northern Atlantic)

Clupea harengus pallasii; Pacific herring (important food fish of the northern Pacific)

Holonyms ("Clupea harangus" is a member of...):

Clupea; genus Clupea (type genus of the Clupeidae: typical herrings)


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