noun
1. cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward
• Syn: ↑cisco
• Hypernyms: ↑whitefish
• Part Holonyms: ↑cisco, ↑Coregonus artedi
2. important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America
• Syn: ↑cisco, ↑Coregonus artedi
• Hypernyms: ↑whitefish
• Member Holonyms: ↑Coregonus, ↑genus Coregonus
• Part Meronyms: ↑cisco
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noun : a cisco (Leucichthys artedi) found from Lake Memphremagog to Lake Superior and northward and important as a commercial food fish; broadly : cisco
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a cisco or whitefish, esp. Coregonus artedii, of the Great Lakes.
[1835-45, Amer.]
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lake herring see ↑cisco
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Main Entry: ↑lake
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lake herring,
= cisco. (Cf. ↑cisco)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.