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Definition of Alosa pseudoharengus
1. Noun. Shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus.
Generic synonyms: Clupeid, Clupeid Fish
Group relationships: Alosa, Genus Alosa
Terms within: Alewife
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alosa Pseudoharengus
Literary usage of Alosa pseudoharengus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Water Quality Indicators Guide: Surface Waters by Charles R. Terrell (1993)
"alosa pseudoharengus (Wilson) Alewife TYPE LOCALITY: Probably Delaware River at
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA (Wilson ca. 1811 in flees' New Cyclopedia ..."
2. New English Canaan: Text, Notes, Biography & Criticism by Thomas Morton (1999)
"Alewives (alosa pseudoharengus) Though the archaeology of “Sandy's Point” in
Yarmouth, Cape Cod (by UMASS-Boston) showed conclusively that Native Americans ..."
3. Ecological Risk Assessment Issue Papersby DIANE Publishing Company by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"For example, the invasion of Lake Huron by the alewife (alosa pseudoharengus)
along with its subsequent proliferation and the numerous accompanying ..."
4. Harmful Non-Indigenous Species in the United States (1994)
"... alewife (alosa pseudoharengus), and rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) to migrate
upstream from Lake Ontario (26). The Asian clam (Corbicula fluminea) ..."
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