Definition of Lake herring

1. Noun. Cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward.

Exact synonyms: Cisco
Group relationships: Cisco, Coregonus Artedi
Generic synonyms: Whitefish

2. Noun. Important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America.
Exact synonyms: Cisco, Coregonus Artedi
Generic synonyms: Whitefish
Group relationships: Coregonus, Genus Coregonus
Terms within: Cisco

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lake Herring

laitances
laitand
laith
laithly
laities
laity
lakao
lake
lake-effect
lake bed
lake bottom
lake duck
lake dwelling
lake dwellings
lake effect
lake herring (current term)
lake poet
lake poets
lake quillwort
lake quillworts
lake salmon
lake stratification
lake trout
lake whitefish
lakebed
lakebeds
laked
lakefront
lakefronts
lakehouse

Literary usage of Lake herring

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"In Lakes Erie, St. Clair, Huron and Superior, as well as throughout Canada, this species is known as herring or lake herring. In Lake Michigan the names ..."

2. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"Herring or lake herring is the name in most general use but others are Cisco, Michigan Herring, Blue-back Herring, Gray-bai Herring, Green-back Herring, ..."

3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The catch of lake herring and whitefish in the United States and Canada for the year ... ООО pounds were lake herring. Most of these are taken in gill-nets, ..."

4. Foods and Their Adulteration: Origin, Manufacture, and Composition of Food by Harvey Washington Wiley (1917)
"lake herring.—The so-called lake herring is very closely related to the whitefish. ... The lake herring has a large number of common names ..."

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