alewife

Noun
  1. Flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams (synset 107801607)
    hypernym: fish - the flesh of fish used as food
    part meronym: alewife, alosa pseudoharengus, pomolobus pseudoharengus - shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus
  2. Shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn;
    Often salted or smoked;
    Sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus (synset 102533745)
    hypernym: clupeid, clupeid fish - any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas
    member meronym: alosa, genus alosa - shad
    part holonym: alewife - flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams
    synonym: alosa pseudoharengus, pomolobus pseudoharengus

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