noun
any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas
• Syn: ↑clupeid
• Hypernyms: ↑soft-finned fish, ↑malacopterygian
• Hyponyms:
↑shad, ↑alewife, ↑Alosa pseudoharengus, ↑Pomolobus pseudoharengus, ↑menhaden, ↑Brevoortia tyrannis, ↑herring, ↑Clupea harangus, ↑sardine, ↑pilchard, ↑Sardina pilchardus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Clupeidae, ↑family Clupeidae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.