herring

Definition of Herring in English :

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Noun

1. herring

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

2. clupea harangus, herring

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

clupea harangus

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Herring

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noun plural -rings or -ring

any marine soft-finned teleost fish of the family Clupeidae, esp Clupea harengus, an important food fish of northern seas, having an elongated body covered, except in the head region, with large fragile silvery scales

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nounWord forms: plural ˈherrings or ˈherring

any of various clupeid fishes; esp., a small, silvery food fish (Clupea harengus) of northern seas that is canned as a sardine

Herring

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n. pl. herring or her·rings

Any of various silvery fishes of the family Clupeidae, especially the commercially important Clupea harengus of the northern Atlantic Ocean and C. pallasii of the northern Pacific Ocean.

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