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Definition of Atlantic herring
1. Noun. Important food fish; found in enormous shoals in the northern Atlantic.
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
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 ..."