Herring vs Mackerel - What's the difference?
herring | mackerel |
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.
An edible fish of the family Scombridae, often speckled.
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As nouns the difference between herring and mackerel
is that herring is a type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food while mackerel is an edible fish of the family Scombridae, often speckled.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.}}
Derived terms
* Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus ) * Baltic herring (Clupea harengus membras ) * (English herring) (Clupea harengus ) * herringbone * (longfin herring) ( ) * matjes herring * Pacific herring () * red herring * round herring * (thread herring) () * (wolf herring) ()See also
* buckling * kipper * stockfishmackerel
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) maquerel, from a (etyl) source.Noun
(en-noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Philander went into the next room