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FRESHWATER FISH

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Flesh of fish from fresh water used as food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

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

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

bream; freshwater bream (flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe)

bass; freshwater bass (any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus))

carp (the lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed; can be baked or braised)

buffalofish (large carp-like North American fish)

pike (highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh)

sucker (flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws)

catfish; mudcat (flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed)

perch (any of numerous fishes of America and Europe)

sunfish (the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae)

brook trout; speckled trout (a delicious freshwater food fish)

lake trout (flesh of large trout of northern lakes)

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

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