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Definition of Lake herring
1. Noun. Cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward.
2. Noun. Important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America.
Generic synonyms: Whitefish
Group relationships: Coregonus, Genus Coregonus
Terms within: Cisco
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lake Herring
Literary usage of Lake herring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"In Lakes Erie, St. Clair, Huron and Superior, as well as throughout Canada, this
species is known as herring or lake herring. In Lake Michigan the names ..."
2. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"Herring or lake herring is the name in most general use but others are Cisco,
Michigan Herring, Blue-back Herring, Gray-bai Herring, Green-back Herring, ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The catch of lake herring and whitefish in the United States and Canada for the year
... ООО pounds were lake herring. Most of these are taken in gill-nets, ..."
4. Foods and Their Adulteration: Origin, Manufacture, and Composition of Food by Harvey Washington Wiley (1917)
"lake herring.—The so-called lake herring is very closely related to the whitefish.
... The lake herring has a large number of common names ..."
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