Herring

What do we mean by herring?

Any of various silvery fishes of the family Clupeidae, especially the commercially important Clupea harengus of the northern Atlantic Ocean and C. pallasii of the northern Pacific Ocean. noun

A clupeoid fish, Clupea harengus, of great economic importance and commercial value. noun

A herring which has been gutted and dried for keeping. noun

A pickled herring. noun

In Australia, Prototroctes maræna, the Yarra herring, fresh-water herring, grayling, or cucumber-mullet, found in the rivers of Victoria and Tasmania. noun

The ten-pounder, Elops saurus, found in all tropical waters. noun

To manure with herring or other fish.

One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (Clupea harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities. noun

A large gull which feeds in part upon herrings; esp., Larus argentatus in America, and Larus cachinnans in England. See Gull. noun

The common porpoise. noun

The opah. noun

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

Commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific noun

Valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled noun

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

Fish in the family Clupeidae.

Fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes.

Words that are spelled similarly to herring:
herring, hearing, erring, herding, derring, hering, herrin, herling, harring, herning, herzing.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word herring:
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Words that rhyme with herring:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe herring:
red, pickled, good, salted, fresh, atlantic, small, young, baltic, norwegian, common, white, blueback, raw, larval, lake, spawning, frozen, dead, fat, round, water, dutch, juvenile, fried, chopped, adult, live, scandian, immature, female, shotten, pickle, kippered, marinated, icelandic, smoked, rotten, freshwater, lavender, salt, broiled, mature, scotch, called, stale, grilled, proverbial, silvery, humble, tinned, sized, scottish, tenth, biggest, unprocessed, convenient, gigantic, salty.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective herring:
bone, fishery, gull, gulls, fishing, boats, creep, nets, curtiss, boat, busses, fisheries, bones, pond, fishers, boning, hall, brine, fish, barrels, barrel, fleet, nabarro, oil, shoals, binet, marvin, buss, lugger, trade, prospectus, formula, mechanism, dealer, box, heads, fifhery, boxes, breuer, gutters, boned, smacks, roe, hog, farces, cask, tub, bait, equation, spawn, fry, skiff, pies, scales, pickle, burgess, worm, bank, farce, vogt, season, shaw, curers, salmon, frogs, reduction, fishermen, tragedy, fleets, hallmarvin, monger, merchant, tribe, sort, vendors, smack, drifter, casks, store, gillam, gutter, stores, predictions, brand, harvest, hoppers.

Consonant match to herring:
hearing, hiring, whoring, haring, harring.

Words that sound like herring:
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