alewife
Noun
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Flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams (synset 107801607)
hypernym: fish - the flesh of fish used as foodpart meronym: alewife, alosa pseudoharengus, pomolobus pseudoharengus - shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus
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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 seasmember meronym: alosa, genus alosa - shadpart holonym: alewife - flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streamssynonym: alosa pseudoharengus, pomolobus pseudoharengus
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