whiting

English Thesaurus

1. a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	gadoid, gadoid fish,
definition	:	a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae (noun.animal)

part holonym	:	whiting,
definition	:	flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe (noun.food)

member meronym	:	genus merlangus, merlangus,
definition	:	whitings (noun.animal)

2. found off Atlantic coast of North America (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	hake,
definition	:	any of several marine food fishes related to cod (noun.animal)

part holonym	:	whiting,
definition	:	flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America (noun.food)

3. any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	sciaenid, sciaenid fish,
definition	:	widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	kingfish,
definition	:	any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	king whiting, menticirrhus americanus,
definition	:	whiting of the southeastern coast of North America (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	menticirrhus saxatilis, northern whiting,
definition	:	whiting of the east coast of United States; closely resembles king whiting (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	corbina, menticirrhus undulatus,
definition	:	bluish-grey whiting of California coast (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	menticirrhus littoralis, silver whiting,
definition	:	a dull silvery whiting of southern Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States (noun.animal)

part holonym	:	whiting,
definition	:	flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America (noun.food)

member meronym	:	genus menticirrhus, menticirrhus,
definition	:	kingfishes; whiting (noun.animal)

4. a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	percoid, percoid fish, percoidean,
definition	:	any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus sillago, sillago,
definition	:	type genus of the Sillaginidae (noun.animal)

5. flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America (noun.food)

hypernym	:	saltwater fish,
definition	:	flesh of fish from the sea used as food (noun.food)

part meronym	:	merluccius bilinearis, silver hake, whiting,
definition	:	found off Atlantic coast of North America (noun.animal)

part meronym	:	whiting,
definition	:	any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters (noun.animal)

6. flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe (noun.food)

hypernym	:	saltwater fish,
definition	:	flesh of fish from the sea used as food (noun.food)

part meronym	:	gadus merlangus, merlangus merlangus, whiting,
definition	:	a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus (noun.animal)