Definition of Atlantic herring

1. Noun. Important food fish; found in enormous shoals in the northern Atlantic.

Exact synonyms: Clupea Harengus Harengus
Group relationships: Clupea, Genus Clupea
Generic synonyms: Clupea Harangus, Herring

Definition of Atlantic herring

1. Noun. ''Clupea harengus'', an abundant species of herring and an important food fish living in the North Atlantic. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Atlantic Herring

Atlantian
Atlantians
Atlantic
Atlantic Canada
Atlantic City
Atlantic Coast
Atlantic Isles
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Standard Time
Atlantic Time
Atlantic bonito
Atlantic bottlenose dolphin
Atlantic cod
Atlantic croaker
Atlantic halibut
Atlantic herring (current term)
Atlantic herrings
Atlantic manta
Atlantic moonfish
Atlantic pollock
Atlantic pollocks
Atlantic pomfret
Atlantic provinces
Atlantic puffin
Atlantic ridley
Atlantic sailfish
Atlantic salmon
Atlantic salmons
Atlantic sea bream
Atlantic spiny dogfish

Literary usage of Atlantic herring

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1880)
"... is, I believe, smaller than the Atlantic herring, and hitherto the cured fish has not been able to compete with the Eastern article. ..."

2. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... gill-rakers very long and slender; vomerine teeth weaker than in the Atlantic herring; usually a few teeth on tongue and premax- illaries; insertion of ..."

3. New English Canaan: Notes & Text by Thomas Morton (2000)
"See also Carlson, "The (In)Significance of Atlantic Salmon in New England" 279 Herring the Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus ..."

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