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Pilchard

A small European food fish (Clupea pilchardus) resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder. It is sometimes taken in great numbers on the coast of England.

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Sardine 92% connected

Any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Amphidiploid noun · 78% connection

(genetics) an organism or cell having a diploid set of chromosomes from each parent

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Alewife noun · 78% connection

A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, european, food, fish, clupea.
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Allis noun · 78% connection

The European shad (Clupea vulgaris); allice shad. See Alose.

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Alose noun · 78% connection

The European shad (Clupea alosa); -- called also allice shad or allis shad. The name is sometimes applied to the American shad (Clupea…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, european, food, fish, clupea.
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Anchovy noun · 78% connection

A small fish, about three inches in length, of the Herring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterrane…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, european, food, fish, clupea.
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Atherine noun · 78% connection

A small marine fish of the family Atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along the sides. The European species (Atherina presbyter) is u…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, european, food, fish, clupea.
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Balk verb · 78% connection

To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, european, food, fish, clupea.
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Bellows fish unknown · 78% connection

A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish,…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, european, food, fish, clupea.
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Bloater noun · 78% connection

The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, european, food, fish, clupea.
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Blueback noun · 78% connection

An American river herring (Clupea aestivalis), closely allied to the alewife.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, european, food, fish, clupea.
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Brit noun · 78% connection

the young of a herring or sprat or similar fish

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, european, food, fish, clupea.
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Britt noun · 78% connection

The young of the common herring; also, a small species of herring; the sprat.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, european, food, fish, clupea.
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Catch noun · 78% connection

That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, european, food, fish, clupea.
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Cisco noun · 78% connection

The Lake herring (Coregonus Artedi), valuable food fish of the Great Lakes of North America. The name is also applied to C. Hoyi, a re…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, european, food, fish, clupea.
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Fish noun · 78% connection

the flesh of fish used as food; "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"; "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people start…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, european, food, fish, clupea.
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Goldfish noun · 78% connection

A small domesticated cyprinoid fish (Carassius auratus); -- so named from its color. It is native of China, and is said to have been i…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, european, food, fish, clupea.
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Gudgeon noun · 78% connection

A small European freshwater fish (Gobio fluviatilis), allied to the carp. It is easily caught and often used for food and for bait. In…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, european, food, fish, clupea.
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Herring noun · 78% connection

One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (C. harengus) of the…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, european, food, fish, clupea.
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Income noun · 78% connection

That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; -- sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.…

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