clupeid

Definitions of clupeid

1. noun

   any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas
   synonyms: clupeid fish

   types:

   shad

   herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn

   Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus, alewife

   shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus

   Brevoortia tyrannis, menhaden

   shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer

   Clupea harangus, herring

   commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific

   sardine

   any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned

   Sardina pilchardus, pilchard, sardine

   small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring

   Alosa sapidissima, common American shad

   shad of Atlantic coast of North America; naturalized to Pacific coast

   Alosa chrysocloris, river shad

   shad that spawns in streams of the Mississippi drainage; very similar to Alosa sapidissima

   Alosa alosa, allice, allice shad, allis, allis shad

   European shad

   Atlantic herring, Clupea harengus harengus

   important food fish; found in enormous shoals in the northern Atlantic

   Clupea harengus pallasii, Pacific herring

   important food fish of the northern Pacific

   sild

   any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway

   Clupea sprattus, brisling, sprat

   small herring processed like a sardine

   Pacific sardine, Sardinops caerulea

   small pilchards common off the pacific coast of North America

   type of:

   malacopterygian, soft-finned fish

   any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii