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/wˈaɪtfˌɪʃ/ /hwˈaɪtfˌɪʃ/ Listen

Whitefish

noun

Any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring.

Flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere.

Silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere.

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"Whitefish" Quotes from Famous Books

... asleep in a nook behind the metal refuse-can, when the strange cat ventured to ascend the steps of the porch, his appearance was so unwarlike that the cat felt encouraged to extend its field of reconnaissance for the cook had been careless, and the backbone of a three-pound whitefish lay at the ...

— Penrod and Sam • Booth Tarkington

... state, "that the buffalo comes to the fords of the Assinboil, besides in these rivers are plenty of sturgeon, catfish, goldeyes, pike and whitefish—the latter so common that men have been seen to catch thirty or forty a piece while they smoked their pipes." To reach this land of plenty, which his brother knew so well, Miles Macdonell became the leader of Lord Selkirk's Colonists. He arrived in Great Britain in the year for the ...

— The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists - The Pioneers of Manitoba • George Bryce

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