menhaden
NounSynonyms:
Brevoortia tyrannis
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Noun (1)
- shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizerSynonyms: Brevoortia tyrannisType of clupeid fish, clupeidMember of Brevoortia, genus BrevoortiaMade of menhaden oil
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
men·ha′den noun
Zoology An American marine fish (Brevoortia tyrannus) of the Herring family (Clupeidae), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; — called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54