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    CLUPEID FISH

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seasplay

    Synonyms:

    clupeid; clupeid fish

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("clupeid fish" is a kind of...):

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

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

    shad (herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn)

    alewife; Alosa pseudoharengus; Pomolobus pseudoharengus (shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus)

    Brevoortia tyrannis; menhaden (shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer)

    Clupea harangus; herring (commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific)

    sardine (any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned)

    pilchard; Sardina pilchardus; sardine (small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring)

    Holonyms ("clupeid fish" is a member of...):

    Clupeidae; family Clupeidae (herrings; shad; sardines; etc.)

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