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Definition of herring

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Herring (n.) One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (C. harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities..

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Pickle-herring :: Pickle-herring (n.) A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring.

Sill :: Sill (n.) A young herring.

Sardine :: Sardine (n.) Any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine (Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden..

Jewfish :: Jewfish (n.) A large herringlike fish; the tarpum.

Gip :: Gip (v. t.) To take out the entrails of (herrings).

Powen :: Powen (n.) A small British lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeoides, or C. ferus); -- called also gwyniad and lake herring..

Pickle :: Pickle (v. t.) To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers..

Sile :: Sile (n.) A young or small herring.

Clupeoid :: Clupeoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Herring family.

Syllabaria :: Syle (n.) A young herring (Clupea harengus).

Physostomi :: Physostomi (n. pl.) An order of fishes in which the air bladder is provided with a duct, and the ventral fins, when present, are abdominal. It includes the salmons, herrings, carps, catfishes, and others..

Isospondyli :: Isospondyli (n. pl.) An extensive order of fishes, including the salmons, herrings, and many allied forms..

Shotten :: Shotten (n.) Having ejected the spawn; as, a shotten herring..

Sprat :: Sprat (n.) A small European herring (Clupea sprattus) closely allied to the common herring and the pilchard; -- called also garvie. The name is also applied to small herring of different kinds.

Garvie :: Garvie (n.) The sprat; -- called also garvie herring, and garvock..

Anchovy :: Anchovy (n.) A small fish, about three inches in length, of the Herring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species..

Porpoise :: Porpoise (n.) Any small cetacean of the genus Phocaena, especially P. communis, or P. phocaena, of Europe, and the closely allied American species (P. Americana). The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout. Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and snuffer..

Trubu :: Trubu (n.) An East India herring (Clupea toli) which is extensively caught for the sake of its roe and for its flesh.

Pilchard :: Pilchard (n.) A small European food fish (Clupea pilchardus) resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder. It is sometimes taken in great numbers on the coast of England..

Tailor :: Tailor (n.) The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring.