Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A North American fish, Clupea vernalis, from 8 to 10 inches long, resembling a small shad, but much inferior to it as food. It is taken in large numbers with that fish.
- noun A name given at Bermuda to the round pompano, Trachynotus ovatus. See
pompano . - noun A local English name of the allice-shad.
- noun A woman who keeps an ale-house.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A North American fish (
Clupea vernalis ) of the Herring family. It is called alsoellwife ,ellwhop ,branch herring . The name is locally applied to other related species. - noun A woman who keeps an alehouse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A woman who keeps an
alehouse . - noun A North American fish (Clupea
vernalis ) of theherring family. - noun A migrating North American fish, Alosa pseudoharengus.
- noun Any of several species similar in appearance.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams
- noun shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus
Etymologies
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Examples
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You'd see/smell why if you were at a beach during an alewife die off.
Over the years I have seen what was once a florishing ecosystem of fish survive. 2009
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Keep in mind that the lake trout are native and the salmon and steelhead were brought in to eat the invasive alewife.
Over the years I have seen what was once a florishing ecosystem of fish survive. 2009
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Keep in mind that the lake trout are native and the salmon and steelhead were brought in to eat the invasive alewife.
Over the years I have seen what was once a florishing ecosystem of fish survive. 2009
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You'd see/smell why if you were at a beach during an alewife die off.
Over the years I have seen what was once a florishing ecosystem of fish survive. 2009
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Seems that Lake Michigan gobie population densities are increasing, while alewife and sculpin populations are decreasing, with overall prey fish populations decreasing, affecting salmon, steelhead, and lake trout.
Over the years I have seen what was once a florishing ecosystem of fish survive. 2009
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He and his committee continued working, drafting regulations of the shad and alewife harvest.
2009 May « Pennamite 2009
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We were eager to act and be involved in the alewife restoration -- later on with the salmon restoration -- but funds were limited.
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We witnessed the alewife spawning migration so many springs, and suddenly the population became depleted.
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He and his committee continued working, drafting regulations of the shad and alewife harvest.
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Seems that Lake Michigan gobie population densities are increasing, while alewife and sculpin populations are decreasing, with overall prey fish populations decreasing, affecting salmon, steelhead, and lake trout.
Over the years I have seen what was once a florishing ecosystem of fish survive. 2009
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