Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various widely distributed soft-finned fishes of the family Clupeidae, which includes the herrings, menhadens, and sardines.
- adj. Of, relating to, or belonging to the family Clupeidae.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A fish of the family Clupeidæ. Also clupeoid.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of many soft-finned fish of the family Clupeidae
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of the family
Clupeidae , inhabiting the shallow waters of northern seas. The group includes the herrings, menhaden, sardines, and shad.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas
Etymologies
- From New Latin Clupeidae, family name, from Latin clupea, a kind of small fish. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The larva of the horse-mackerel, on the other hand, is like a tadpole; it swims better than a clupeid larva of the same size - thus enabling it to flee predators more easily - and it has a bigger mouth to capture more and bigger prey.”
Lists
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fish list
lots and lots of fish, a piscatorial
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Herring
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
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The word collector
My collection of words that are intriguing, but don't fit my other lists.
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New 7s
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