Herring vs Alewife - What's the difference?
herring | alewife |
A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea , often used as food.
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Fish similar to those in genus Clupea , many of those in the order Clupeiformes.
(archaic) A woman who keeps an alehouse.
A North American fish, , of the herring family.
A migrating North American fish, .
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Any of several species similar in appearance.
As nouns the difference between herring and alewife
is that herring is a type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food while alewife is a woman who keeps an alehouse.As a proper noun Herring
is {{surname}.herring
English
(wikipedia herring) (Clupea)Noun
(en-noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring' s fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}