CLUPEA HARENGUS HARENGUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Clupea harengus harengus mean? 

• CLUPEA HARENGUS HARENGUS (noun)
  The noun CLUPEA HARENGUS HARENGUS has 1 sense:

1. important food fish; found in enormous shoals in the northern Atlantic

  Familiarity information: CLUPEA HARENGUS HARENGUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLUPEA HARENGUS HARENGUS (noun)

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Meaning:

Important food fish; found in enormous shoals in the northern Atlantic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Atlantic herring; Clupea harengus harengus

Hypernyms ("Clupea harengus harengus" is a kind of...):

Clupea harangus; herring (commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific)

Holonyms ("Clupea harengus harengus" is a member of...):

Clupea; genus Clupea (type genus of the Clupeidae: typical herrings)