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/wˈaɪtfˌɪʃ/ /hwˈaɪtfˌɪʃ/ Listen

Whitefish

noun

Any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring.

Flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere.

Silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere.

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"Whitefish" Quotes from Famous Books

... were plentiful. The boys caught salmon, smelts, and whitefish, and many were dried for the coming winter, while clams, gum-boots, sea-cucumbers, and devil-fish, found on the rocks of the ...

— Kalitan, Our Little Alaskan Cousin • Mary F. Nixon-Roulet

... successful. One plan that very much interested them was fishing with a net attached to the small end of a pole. This they used in the water, in the same method in which they had been accustomed to catch moths and butterflies, with their lighter and frailer nets. They felt quite elated when a large whitefish or lively trout was brought up in the ...

— Three Boys in the Wild North Land • Egerton Ryerson Young

Words linked to "Whitefish" : family Coregonidae, cisco, Coregonus artedi, lake herring, Great Britain, seafood, U.K., food fish, freshwater fish, malacopterygian, United Kingdom, UK, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Prosopium williamsonii, Coregonus clupeaformis, lake whitefish, Britain, Prosopium cylindraceum, Coregonidae, soft-finned fish