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English noun: whitefish

1. whitefish (food) any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring


Broader (hypernym)seafood


Domain regionBritain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

2. whitefish (food) flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere


Broader (hypernym)freshwater fish


Narrower (hyponym)cisco, lake herring


Part meronymwhitefish

3. whitefish (animal) silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere


Broader (hypernym)food fish, malacopterygian, soft-finned fish


Narrower (hyponym)cisco, Coregonus artedi, Coregonus clupeaformis, lake herring, lake whitefish, Menominee whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, Prosopium williamsonii, Rocky Mountain whitefish, round whitefish


Part holonymwhitefish


Member meronymCoregonidae, family Coregonidae









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