Definition of alewife Alewife
/ejˈlwajˌf/ - [eylwayf] - ale•wife
We found 11 definitions of alewife from 6 different sources.
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What does alewife mean?
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NounPlural: alewives |
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| alewife - shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus | ||
| Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus | ||
| clupeid, clupeid fish any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas | ||
| alosa, genus alosa shad | ||
| alewife - flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams | ||
| fish any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills; "the shark is a large fish"; "in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish" | ||
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- alewife (Noun)
A woman who keeps an alehouse. - alewife (Noun)
A North American fish of the herring family. - alewife (Noun)
A migrating North American fish, Alosa pseudoharengus. - alewife (Noun)
Any of several species similar in appearance.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- alewife (n.)
A woman who keeps an alehouse. - alewife (n.)
A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally applied to other related species.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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alewife
āl′wīf, n. a fish of the same genus as the shad, about a foot in length, common on the east coast of North America. [Said to be a corr. of aloofe, the Indian name of a fish.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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alewife
The Clupea alosa, a fish of the herring kind, which appears in the Philosophical Transactions for 1678, as the aloofe; the corruption therefore was a ready one.
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🔤- alewife, noun, singular of alewives.
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