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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A silvery cisco (Coregonus artedi) of the Great Lakes and other lakes of Canada and the northern United States.

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  • noun important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America
  • noun cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward

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