herring
/ˈhɛɹɪŋ/noun2 syllables
Herring means: commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific.
Synonyms for herring1
noun, as in commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
Clupea harangus
What does herring mean?2
noun
1
commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
2
valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with herring?19
two syllables
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Herring in a sentence
- Every herring is a fish, but not every fish is a herring.AlanF_US
- The police followed a red herring while they let the true criminal escape.unknown
- Herring salad does not taste good to me.carlosalberto
- Her face made me think of a pickled herring in curl papers.LK
- The footwear the murderer left at the crime scene was a red herring.Amastan
- Please show me how to pickle salted herring.sundown
- Salted herring rolls were being sold at a stand.sundown
- Herring populations have been threatened by overfishing and habitat loss.megamanenm
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Forms of herring
as a noun
- plural
- herrings