Tilapia vs. Whiting — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Tilapia and Whiting
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Tilapia
Tilapia ( tih-LAH-pee-ə) is the common name for nearly a hundred species of cichlid fish from the coelotilapine, coptodonine, heterotilapine, oreochromine, pelmatolapiine, and tilapiine tribes (formerly all were "Tilapiini"), with the economically most important species placed in the Coptodonini and Oreochromini. Tilapia are mainly freshwater fish inhabiting shallow streams, ponds, rivers, and lakes, and less commonly found living in brackish water.
Whiting
A pure white grade of chalk that has been ground and washed for use in paints, ink, and putty.
Tilapia
Any of various cichlid fishes of the genera Tilapia, Oreochromis, and Sarotherodon, native to Africa and the Middle East and raised for food in many parts of the world.
Whiting
A food fish (Merlangius merlangus) of the eastern North Atlantic and the Black Sea, closely related to and resembling the cod.
Tilapia
Any of various edible fish, formerly species of the genus Tilapia, but now placed in other cichlid genera (such as Oreochromis), native to Africa and the Middle East but cultivated worldwide.
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Whiting
Any of various marine food fishes having delicate white flesh, especially several hakes of the genus Merluccius and several kingfishes of the genus Menticirrhus.
Tilapia
A genus of Cichlidae
Whiting
The achromatic color of maximum lightness; the color of objects that reflect nearly all light of all visible wavelengths; the complement or antagonist of black, the other extreme of the neutral gray series. Although typically a response to maximum stimulation of the retina, the perception of white appears always to depend on contrast.
Whiting
The albumen of an egg.
Whiting
The white part of an eyeball.
Whiting
A blank or unprinted area, as of an advertisement.
Whiting
Whites Pieces of laundry having a white or nearly white color.
Whiting
Whites White pants or a white outfit of a special nature
Tennis whites.
Whiting
Whites The white dress uniform of the US Navy or Coast Guard.
Whiting
A white wine.
Whiting
A white pigment.
Whiting
A white breed, species, or variety of animal.
Whiting
Any of various butterflies of the subfamily Pierinae, characteristically having chiefly white wings often with black markings.
Whiting
Also White A member of a racial group having light-colored skin, especially when of European origin and in some classifications also when of Middle Eastern or North African origin.
Whiting
Often whites Products of a white color, such as flour, salt, and sugar.
Whiting
The white or light-colored pieces, as in chess.
Whiting
The player using these pieces.
Whiting
The outermost ring of an archery target.
Whiting
A hit in this ring.
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Whites(Medicine) Leukorrhea.
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White A member of a conservative or counterrevolutionary faction, especially one opposing the Bolsheviks in the Russian civil war.
Whiting
Being of the color white; devoid of hue, as new snow.
Whiting
Weakly colored; almost colorless; pale
White wine.
Whiting
Pale gray; silvery and lustrous
White hair.
Whiting
Bloodless; blanched.
Whiting
Light or whitish in color or having light or whitish parts. Used with animal and plant names.
Whiting
Also White Of or belonging to a racial group of people having light-colored skin, especially when of European origin, and in some classifications also when of Middle Eastern or North African origin
Voting patterns within the white population.
Whiting
Habited in white
White nuns.
Whiting
Accompanied by or mantled with snow
A white Christmas.
Whiting
Incandescent
White flames.
Whiting
Intensely heated; impassioned
White with fury.
Whiting
White Of or relating to a conservative or counterrevolutionary faction, especially one opposing the Bolsheviks in the Russian civil war.
Whiting
With milk added. Used of tea or coffee.
Whiting
(Archaic) Unsullied; pure.
Whiting
(Printing) To cover or make illegible with white coloring. Often used with out.
Whiting
A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc.
Whiting
A fish, Merlangius merlangus (family Gadidae), similar to cod, found in the North Atlantic; English whiting US.
Whiting
Any fish of many species that resemble Merlangius merlangus:
Whiting
In family Gadidae:
Whiting
In family Sillaginidae, pl=s, inhabiting Indo-Pacific marine coasts, many species of which are commercially important whitefish.
Whiting
In family Sciaenidae, Menticirrhus americanus (Carolina whiting, king whiting, southern kingcroaker, and southern kingfish) found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
Whiting
Present participle of white
Whiting
A common European food fish (Melangus vulgaris) of the Codfish family; - called also fittin.
Whiting
Chalk prepared in an impalpable powder by pulverizing and repeated washing, used as a pigment, as an ingredient in putty, for cleaning silver, etc.
Whiting
Flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe
Whiting
Flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America
Whiting
A small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish
Whiting
Any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters
Whiting
Found off Atlantic coast of North America
Whiting
A food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus
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