- Small food fish - Small sea fish - Type of fish - of White - A common European food fish (Melangus vulgaris) of the
Codfish family; -- called also fittin. - A North American fish (Merlucius vulgaris) allied to the
preceding; -- called also silver hake. - Any one of several species of North American marine
sciaenoid food fishes belonging to genus Menticirrhus, especially M.
Americanus, found from Maryland to Brazil, and M. littoralis, common
from Virginia to Texas; -- called also silver whiting, and surf
whiting.
- a member of the herring family found in the mediterranean sea - Fish served in Caesar salad - Small salty fish - Small salty fish, often pickled - Small sea fish - A small fish, about three inches in length, of the Herring
family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the
Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to
several allied species.
- Fish type - Fish, often pickled - Food fish of the northern seas - Small sea fish - One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and
allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (C. harengus)
of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring
to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked
in great quantities.
- Drains off European fish - Food fish - Send Ira off to get little one from school - Small sea fish - Young pilchard - Any one of several small species of herring which are
commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or
European sardine (Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine (Clupea
sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are
mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden. - See Sardius.
- Any one of several small American cyprinodont fishes of
the genus Fundulus and allied genera. They live equally well in fresh
and brackish water, or even in the sea. They are usually striped or
barred with black. Called also minnow, and brook fish. See Minnow.
- A large marine food fish (Serranus, / Centropristis,
atrarius) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It
is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less varied with small
white spots and blotches. Called also, locally, blue bass, black sea
bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch. - A California food fish (Cynoscion nobile); -- called also
white sea bass, and sea salmon.
- Small fish - Small fish needs some vitamin nowadays - Small freshwater fish - Small silvery fish - Small slender fish - Tiddler - A small European fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Phoxinus
laevis, formerly Leuciscus phoxinus); sometimes applied also to the
young of larger kinds; -- called also minim and minny. The name is also
applied to several allied American species, of the genera Phoxinus,
Notropis, or Minnilus, and Rhinichthys.