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Whitefish   /wˈaɪtfˌɪʃ/  /hwˈaɪtfˌɪʃ/   Listen
Whitefish

noun
1.
Any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring.
2.
Flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere.
3.
Silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere.



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"Whitefish" Quotes from Famous Books



... cases, but for the assistance they afforded, would have been compelled to relinquish their settlements. They could catch a supply at any time, and they then had an unfailing resort when their crops failed. Whitefish were a great favorite with the Indians. They would give many times their weight in trout or any other species in exchange for them. It is said that a person can subsist longer upon them than upon any ...
— Old Mackinaw - The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings • W. P. Strickland


Words linked to "Whitefish" :   Rocky Mountain whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, UK, Britain, U.K., Coregonus artedi, Prosopium williamsonii, Coregonus clupeaformis, Great Britain, seafood, cisco, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, soft-finned fish, round whitefish, family Coregonidae, lake herring, malacopterygian, Coregonidae, food fish, United Kingdom, freshwater fish


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