WHITEFISH (whitefishes)

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Irregular inflected form: whitefishes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does whitefish mean? 

• WHITEFISH (noun)
  The noun WHITEFISH has 3 senses:

1. any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring

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

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

  Familiarity information: WHITEFISH used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITEFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("whitefish" is a kind of...):

seafood (edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("whitefish" is a kind of...):

freshwater fish (flesh of fish from fresh water used as food)

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

cisco; lake herring (cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward)

Holonyms ("whitefish" is a part of...):

whitefish (silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("whitefish" is a kind of...):

malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)

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

Meronyms (parts of "whitefish"):

whitefish (flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere)

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

Coregonus clupeaformis; lake whitefish (found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska)

cisco; Coregonus artedi; 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)

Holonyms ("whitefish" is a member of...):

Coregonidae; family Coregonidae (soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes; formerly included in the family Salmonidae)