Word

clupeid, n.
(clupeids)

any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas
<noun.animal>

clupeid clupeid fish

semantic pointers

hypernym

soft-finned fish, malacopterygian

member holonym

Clupeidae, family Clupeidae

hyponym

shad alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannis herring, Clupea harangus sardine pilchard, sardine, Sardina pilchardus