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WHITEFISH
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Irregular inflected form: whitefishes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("whitefish" is a kind of...):
malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)
food fish (any fish used for food by human beings)
Meronyms (parts of "whitefish"):
whitefish (flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "whitefish"):
Coregonus clupeaformis; lake whitefish (found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska)
cisco; Coregonus artedi; lake herring (important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America)
Menominee whitefish; Prosopium cylindraceum; round whitefish (a whitefish with a bronze back; of northern North America and Siberia)
Prosopium williamsonii; Rocky Mountain whitefish (whitefish of the western United States and Canada)
Holonyms ("whitefish" is a member of...):
Coregonidae; family Coregonidae (soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes; formerly included in the family Salmonidae)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("whitefish" is a kind of...):
freshwater fish (flesh of fish from fresh water used as food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "whitefish"):
cisco; lake herring (cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward)
Holonyms ("whitefish" is a part of...):
whitefish (silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("whitefish" is a kind of...):
seafood (edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
