whitefish

English Thesaurus

1. silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	malacopterygian, soft-finned fish,
definition	:	any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	food fish,
definition	:	any fish used for food by human beings (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	coregonus clupeaformis, lake whitefish,
definition	:	found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	cisco, coregonus artedi, lake herring,
definition	:	important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	menominee whitefish, prosopium cylindraceum, round whitefish,
definition	:	a whitefish with a bronze back; of northern North America and Siberia (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	prosopium williamsonii, rocky mountain whitefish,
definition	:	whitefish of the western United States and Canada (noun.animal)

part holonym	:	whitefish,
definition	:	flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere (noun.food)

member meronym	:	coregonidae, family coregonidae,
definition	:	soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes; formerly included in the family Salmonidae (noun.animal)

2. flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere (noun.food)

hypernym	:	freshwater fish,
definition	:	flesh of fish from fresh water used as food (noun.food)

hyponym	:	cisco, lake herring,
definition	:	cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward (noun.food)

part meronym	:	whitefish,
definition	:	silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere (noun.animal)

3. any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring (noun.food)

hypernym	:	seafood,
definition	:	edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc (noun.food)

domain region	:	britain, great britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland,
definition	:	a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom (noun.location)