whitefish
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Etymology
Noun
whitefish (plural whitefishes or whitefish)
- Any of many fish.
- Any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus Coregonus, used as food.
- Any of several other fish, such as whiting (Merlangius merlangus) or menhaden (Brevoortia spp. and Ethmidium spp.).
- (cooking, fishing) Any of several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly cod, whiting, and haddock, as opposed to the oily or pelagic fishes.
- The beluga (both the sturgeon and the whale)
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Derived terms
- Alaska whitefish (Coregonus nelsonii)
- Atlantic whitefish (Coregonus huntsmani)
- Bear Lake whitefish Prosopium abyssicola
- broad whitefish (Coregonus nasus)
- Cape whitefish (Pseudobarbus capensis)
- common whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus)
- Coney Island whitefish
- European whitefish (Coregonus spp.)
- freshwater whitefish (subfamily Coregoninae spp.)
- humpbacked whitefish (Coregonus nelsoni)
- lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis)
- Menominee whitefish (Prosopium cylindraceum)
- mongrel whitefish (Coregonus tullibee)
- mountain whitefish (Prosopium williamsoni)
- ocean whitefish (Caulolatilus princeps)
- pygmy whitefish (Prosopium coulterii)
- Rocky Mountain whitefish (Prosopium williamsonii)
- round whitefish (Prosopium cylindraceum)
Translations
fish of the genus Coregonus
whiting — see whiting
menhaden — see menhaden
beluga — see beluga
Verb
whitefish (third-person singular simple present whitefishes, present participle whitefishing, simple past and past participle whitefished)
- To fish for whitefish.
- 1894, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, “The Windigo”, in The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, page 169:
- “Perhaps he went whitefishing after he had his supper.”
- 1932 March 6, “Fishing Through Ice Is Thrill”, in The Spokesman-Review, 49th year, number 297, Spokane, Wash., part four, page 1:
- “Bill” is said to have whitefished on the lake since Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox first plowed it out.
- 1986, James Lee Burke, The Lost Get-Back Boogie, Baton Rouge, La., London: Louisiana State University Press, →ISBN, page 213:
- Beth and I whitefished in the broken ice along the banks of the Clark, a fire of driftwood roaring in the wind with the coffeepot set among the coals.