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Definition of Clupea
1. Noun. Type genus of the Clupeidae: typical herrings.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Clupeidae, Family Clupeidae
Member holonyms: Clupea Harangus, Herring, Atlantic Herring, Clupea Harengus Harengus, Clupea Harengus Pallasii, Pacific Herring, Brisling, Clupea Sprattus, Sprat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clupea
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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