Alewife vs. Herring — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Alewife and Herring
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Alewife
A fish (Alosa pseudoharengus) of North American Atlantic waters and some inland lakes, which swims up rivers to spawn.
Herring
Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family Clupeidae. Herring often move in large schools around fishing banks and near the coast, found particularly in shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans, including the Baltic Sea, as well as off the west coast of South America.
Alewife
A woman who keeps an alehouse.
Herring
Any of various silvery fishes of the family Clupeidae, especially the commercially important Clupea harengus of the northern Atlantic Ocean and C. pallasii of the northern Pacific Ocean.
Alewife
(archaic) A woman who keeps an alehouse.
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Herring
A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.
Alewife
A migrating North American fish, Alosa pseudoharengus.
Herring
Fish in the family Clupeidae.
Alewife
Any of several species similar in appearance.
Herring
Fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes.
Alewife
A woman who keeps an alehouse.
Herring
One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (Clupea 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.
Alewife
A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally applied to other related species.
Herring
Valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled
Alewife
Flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams
Herring
Commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
Alewife
Shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus
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