whitefish
IPA: wˈaɪtfɪʃ
noun
- Any of many fish.
- Any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus Coregonus, used as food.
- Any of several other fish, such as whiting (Merlangius merlangus) or menhaden (Brevoortia spp. and Ethmidium spp.).
- (cooking, fishing) Any of several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly cod, whiting, and haddock, as opposed to the oily or pelagic fishes.
- The beluga (both the sturgeon and the whale)
verb
- To fish for whitefish.
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Examples of "whitefish" in Sentences
- There are no "whitefish" in Lake Chapala, only poisonous, bottom sucking carp.
- Fifteen: Fly shop guy thinks every foul-hooked whitefish is a twenty-inch brown trout.
- But that's a whale compared to the usual pygmy whitefish which is just a couple of ounces.
- Yes | No | Report from joey wrote 2 years 5 weeks ago looks like a mountain whitefish to me
- There was shrimp (2), clams, some kind of whitefish, salmon, and some other things I can't name.
- On Washington Avenue, where clubs now pulse till dawn, stores used to sell whitefish and five-and-dime notions to gray-haired ladies like Mrs. Wallach.
- The _Otsego Farmer_ in 1915 summed up the matter thus: "Otsego bass is not what is ordinarily termed whitefish, but is probably a species of the same family.
- Other types of widely distributed fish, such as whitefish and Arctic char, are less likely to be affected unless new competing species arrive from southerly regions.
- (In truth, lake whitefish is more appealing as an idea than as a reality, because of its sometimes mushy texture, although it does have a hearty, arctic char-like flavor.)
- Lake varieties of Pacific salmon occur, whitefish, trout, including the splendid red throat, the sluggish Dolly Varden, the handsome rainbow, and fine grayling, one of which is really a Rocky Mountain whitefish of good game qualities, though called grayling.
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