Menhaden vs Herring - What's the difference?
menhaden | herring |
Any of several species of fish in the genera , used for fish meal, fish oil, fertilizer, and bait.
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.
As a noun menhaden
is any of several species of fish in the genera , used for fish meal, fish oil, fertilizer, and bait.As a proper noun herring is
.menhaden
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(wikipedia menhaden) (Brevoortia) (Ethmidium)Alternative forms
* menhaddenNoun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* pauhagen, poghadenDerived terms
* menhaden oilherring
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.}}