CLUPEID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clupeid mean? 

• CLUPEID (noun)
  The noun CLUPEID has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas

  Familiarity information: CLUPEID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLUPEID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

clupeid; clupeid fish

Hypernyms ("clupeid" is a kind of...):

malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clupeid"):

shad (herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn)

alewife; Alosa pseudoharengus; Pomolobus pseudoharengus (shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus)

Brevoortia tyrannis; menhaden (shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer)

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

sardine (any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned)

pilchard; Sardina pilchardus; sardine (small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring)

Holonyms ("clupeid" is a member of...):

Clupeidae; family Clupeidae (herrings; shad; sardines; etc.)