LAKE WHITEFISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lake whitefish mean? 

• LAKE WHITEFISH (noun)
  The noun LAKE WHITEFISH has 1 sense:

1. found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska

  Familiarity information: LAKE WHITEFISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAKE WHITEFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Coregonus clupeaformis; lake whitefish

Hypernyms ("lake whitefish" is a kind of...):

whitefish (silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere)

Holonyms ("lake whitefish" is a member of...):

Coregonus; genus Coregonus (type genus of the Coregonidae: whitefishes)