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noun

Whitefish n. (Zool.)

(a)

Any one of several species of Coregonus, a genus of excellent food fishes allied to the salmons. They inhabit the lakes of the colder parts of North America, Asia, and Europe. The largest and most important American species (Coregonus clupeiformis) is abundant in the Great Lakes, and in other lakes farther north. Called also lake whitefish, and Oswego bass.

(b)

The menhaden.

(c)

The beluga, or white whale. Note: Various other fishes are locally called whitefish, as the silver salmon, the whiting (a), the yellowtail, and the young of the bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Whitefish" Quotes from Famous Books

... as indeed were all the ones that they had in that cold clime, for it is not pleasant to linger sitting down with the thermometer hovering around thirty below zero. The dogs, who always seemed ravenous, were tossed some frozen whitefish, which they bolted almost whole. Then the harness was adjusted, the sleds looked to and the ...

— The Young Treasure Hunter - or, Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska • Frank V. Webster

... a place silent as the dead—a big deserted village, emptied by the plague, or, maybe, only by the winter; caches emptied, too; not a salmon, not a pike, not a lusk, not even a whitefish ...

— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)

Words linked to "Whitefish" : lake herring, freshwater fish, Britain, Coregonidae, soft-finned fish, Coregonus clupeaformis, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, family Coregonidae, Rocky Mountain whitefish, seafood, U.K., food fish, lake whitefish, Prosopium williamsonii, Menominee whitefish, cisco, Prosopium cylindraceum, malacopterygian, UK