whitefish

/ˌwaɪtˈfɪʃ/

/ˌhwaɪtˈfɪʃ/

Other forms: whitefishes

Definitions of whitefish

1. noun

   any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring
   type of:

   seafood

   edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc
2. noun

   flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere
   types:

   cisco, lake herring

   cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward

   type of:

   freshwater fish

   flesh of fish from fresh water used as food
3. noun

   silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere
   types:

   Coregonus clupeaformis, lake whitefish

   found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska

   Coregonus artedi, cisco, lake herring

   important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America

   Menominee whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, round whitefish

   a whitefish with a bronze back; of northern North America and Siberia

   Prosopium williamsonii, Rocky Mountain whitefish

   whitefish of the western United States and Canada

   type of:

   malacopterygian, soft-finned fish

   any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii

   food fish

   any fish used for food by human beings