whitefish
Noun
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Any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring (synset 107811293)
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 Kingdomis a type of: seafood - edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc
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Flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere (synset 107811109)
is a type of: freshwater fish - flesh of fish from fresh water used as foodsubtypes: cisco, lake herring - cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northwardis a part of: whitefish - silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere
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Silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere (synset 102541616)
is a type of:
- malacopterygian, soft-finned fish - any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii
- food fish - any fish used for food by human beings
subtypes:- 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
belongs to: coregonidae, family coregonidae - soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes; formerly included in the family Salmonidaehas: whitefish - flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere
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