Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various chiefly North American freshwater food fishes of the genus Coregonus, having a generally white or silvery color.
- n. Any of various similar or related fishes, such as the lake herring, whiting, or menhaden.
- n. See beluga.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A general name of fishes and other aquatic animals which are white, or nearly so: variously applied. A fish of such kind as the whiting, haddock, or menhaden.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Any one of several species of Coregonus, a genus of excellent food fishes allied to the salmons. They inhabit the lakes of the colder parts of North America, Asia, and Europe. The largest and most important American species (Coregonus clupeiformis) is abundant in the Great Lakes, and in other lakes farther north. Called also
lake whitefish , andOswego bass . - n. The menhaden.
- n. The beluga, or white whale.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring
- n. flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere
- n. silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere
Etymologies
- white + fish (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Fifteen: Fly shop guy thinks every foul-hooked whitefish is a twenty-inch brown trout.”
“Yes | No | Report from joey wrote 2 years 5 weeks ago looks like a mountain whitefish to me”
“(In truth, lake whitefish is more appealing as an idea than as a reality, because of its sometimes mushy texture, although it does have a hearty, arctic char-like flavor.)”
“Lake varieties of Pacific salmon occur, whitefish, trout, including the splendid red throat, the sluggish Dolly Varden, the handsome rainbow, and fine grayling, one of which is really a Rocky Mountain whitefish of good game qualities, though called grayling.”
“Other types of widely distributed fish, such as whitefish and Arctic char, are less likely to be affected unless new competing species arrive from southerly regions.”
Broad-scale effects of climate change on freshwater systems in the Arctic
“There are no "whitefish" in Lake Chapala, only poisonous, bottom sucking carp.”
“There was shrimp (2), clams, some kind of whitefish, salmon, and some other things I can't name.”
“The _Otsego Farmer_ in 1915 summed up the matter thus: "Otsego bass is not what is ordinarily termed whitefish, but is probably a species of the same family.”
“On Washington Avenue, where clubs now pulse till dawn, stores used to sell whitefish and five-and-dime notions to gray-haired ladies like Mrs. Wallach.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘whitefish’.
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fish list
lots and lots of fish, a piscatorial
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PECH - marine species
African cuttlefish, Alaska plaice, Alaska pollock, Alaska pollack, walleye pollock, alewife, gaspereau, river herring, sawbelly, allis shad, American angler, goosefish and 994 more...
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white phrase/words
how white is used
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Words ending with sh
wash, zanyish, youngish, yokelish, yellowish, wormish, woosh, womanish, wolfish, wispish, wish, winish and 42 more...
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Henry's Favorite Song
being sorts of Fish
fish, walleye, bass, catfish, carp, pike, sunfish, cod, monkfish, salmon, tuna, shark and 59 more...
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Names of fish that end in -fish.
paddlefish, goldfish, catfish, crayfish, swordfish, whitefish, monkfish, goosefish, anglerfish, jellyfish, lungfish, blackfish and 18 more...
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Cetaceans
grampus, whale, porpoise, dolphin, cachalot, minke, narwhal, rorqual, orca, humpback, beluga, kogia and 49 more...
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