clupeid fish

1. Any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas (synset 102532403)
   is a type of: malacopterygian, soft-finned fish - any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii
   subtypes:

   • shad - herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn
   • alewife, alosa pseudoharengus, pomolobus pseudoharengus - shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus
   • brevoortia tyrannis, menhaden - shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer
   • clupea harangus, herring - commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
   • sardine - any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
   • pilchard, sardina pilchardus, sardine - small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
   belongs to: clupeidae, family clupeidae - herrings; shad; sardines; etc.
   same as: clupeid

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