Definition of Clupea

1. Noun. Type genus of the Clupeidae: typical herrings.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Clupea

Clotho
Clotilda
Cloudman melanoma
Cloughoge
Clovis
Clovis I
Clovis culture
Clozaril
Cluj-Napoca
Clumber spaniel
Clumber spaniels
Cluniac
Cluniacensian
Cluniacensians
Cluniacs
Clupea (current term)
Clupea harangus
Clupea harengus harengus
Clupea harengus pallasii
Clupea sprattus
Clupeidae
Clusia flava
Clusia insignis
Clusia major
Clusia rosea
Clusiaceae
Clyde
Clyde William Tombaugh
Clydesdale

Literary usage of Clupea

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

1. Synopsis of the Fishes of North America by David Starr Jordan, Charles Henry Gilbert (1882)
"Mouth essentially as in Clupea. Teeth none, or minute ami deciduous. Gill-membranes separate, with about G flat ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"The third, pilchardus, is the Clupea pilchardus of Linnaeus, a species of Sardinia, which is probably the same as Sardinella. The fourth species of Lacépède ..."

3. A History of Rome to the Battle of Actium by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh (1894)
"Coss. investing the remains of the Roman army in Clupea, but met with Servius such determined resistance, ... But they expected that the defeat of Clupea. ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1863)
"The following Communications were then read:— I. Report of the Committee on Marine Zoology (with special reference to the presence of the Whitebait (Clupea ..."

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