Noun

(en noun)

(UK, dialect) The young of the sea trout.

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en-noun)

A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea , often used as food.

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Fish in the family Clupeidae.

Fish similar to those in genus Clupea , many of those in the order Clupeiformes.