herring — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.

2. Fish in the family Clupeidae.

3. Those fish and any other fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes.

   Broader terms

   fishanimalcreature

Noun

1. valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled

   Broader terms

   saltwater fish

2. commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific

   Synonyms

   Clupea harangusClupea harengus

   Broader terms

   clupeid fishclupeidfood fish