brevoortia

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A genus of California plants of the family Liliaceæ. B. Ida-Maia, the only species, is a slender, grassy, half-hardy plant with beautiful and lasting scarlet and green flowers often called floral fire-crackers.
• noun A North American genus of herrings, family Clupeidæ, characterized by the elongated intestine and carinated scales.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun a genus of fishes consisting of the menhaden.

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• noun menhaden