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Alewife

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A fish (Alosa pseudoharengus) closely related to the herrings and native to North American Atlantic waters and some inland lakes.

n. A woman who keeps an alehouse.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A woman who keeps an alehouse.

n. A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the herring family.

n. A migrating North American fish, Alosa pseudoharengus.

n. Any of several species similar in appearance.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A woman who keeps an alehouse.

n. A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally applied to other related species.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A woman who keeps an ale-house.

n. A North American fish, Clupea vernalis, from 8 to 10 inches long, resembling a small shad, but much inferior to it as food. It is taken in large numbers with that fish.

n. A name given at Bermuda to the round pompano, Trachynotus ovatus. See pompano.

n. A local English name of the allice-shad.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams

n. shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus

Word Usage

"We witnessed the alewife spawning migration so many springs, and suddenly the population became depleted."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

fish clupeid clupeid fish

Variant

alewives ellwife ellwhop branch herring

Form

Alewife Brook

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

ellwife ellwhop branch herring