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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward [syn: lake herring, cisco]
2: important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America [syn: cisco, lake herring, Coregonus artedi]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural ciscoes) Etymology: short for Canadian French ciscoette Date: 1848 any of various whitefishes (genus Coregonus); especially lake herring

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -oes) any of various freshwater whitefish of the genus Coregonus, native to N. America. Etymology: 19th c.: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cisco Cis"co, n. (Zo["o]l.) The Lake herring (Coregonus Artedi), valuable food fish of the Great Lakes of North America. The name is also applied to C. Hoyi, a related species of Lake Michigan.