Menhaden
91Brevoortia — noun menhaden • Syn: ↑genus Brevoortia • Hypernyms: ↑fish genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Clupeidae, ↑family Clupeidae • Member Meronyms: ↑menh …
92Brevoortia tyrannis — noun shad like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer • Syn: ↑menhaden • Hypernyms: ↑clupeid fish, ↑clupeid • Member Holonyms: ↑Brevoortia, ↑genus Brevoortia …
93clupeid — noun any of numerous soft finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas • Syn: ↑clupeid fish • Hypernyms: ↑soft finned fish, ↑malacopterygian • Hyponyms: ↑shad, ↑alewife, ↑ …
94genus Brevoortia — noun menhaden • Syn: ↑Brevoortia • Hypernyms: ↑fish genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Clupeidae, ↑family Clupeidae • Member Meronyms: ↑menhaden, ↑ …
95savelha — səˈvelyə noun ( s) Etymology: Portuguese, diminutive of savel shad, probably of Celtic origin; akin to Old Irish sam, samrad summer more at summer 1. : menhaden 2. : a fish (Brevoortia pectinata) of the south Atlantic closely related to the… …
96bunk|er — bunk|er1 «BUHNG kuhr», noun, adjective, verb. –n. 1. a place or bin for coal, especially on a ship: »The reactor in an atomic ship corresponds to the fuel in the bunkers of an ordinary steamship (New Scientist). 2. a sandy hollow or mound of… …
97fat|back — «FAT BAK», noun. 1. salt pork from the upper part of a side of pork. 2. = menhaden. (Cf. ↑menhaden) …
98A alnifolia — Shad Shad (sh[a^]d), n. sing. & pl. [AS. sceadda a kind of fish, akin to Prov. G. schade; cf. Ir. & Gael. sgadan a herring, W. ysgadan herrings; all perhaps akin to E. skate a fish.] (Zo[ o]l.) Any one of several species of food fishes of the… …
99A Canadensis — Shad Shad (sh[a^]d), n. sing. & pl. [AS. sceadda a kind of fish, akin to Prov. G. schade; cf. Ir. & Gael. sgadan a herring, W. ysgadan herrings; all perhaps akin to E. skate a fish.] (Zo[ o]l.) Any one of several species of food fishes of the… …
100Alosa alosa — Shad Shad (sh[a^]d), n. sing. & pl. [AS. sceadda a kind of fish, akin to Prov. G. schade; cf. Ir. & Gael. sgadan a herring, W. ysgadan herrings; all perhaps akin to E. skate a fish.] (Zo[ o]l.) Any one of several species of food fishes of the… …
