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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring
2: flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere
3: silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century 1. a. any of various freshwater salmonid food fishes (especially of genera Coregonus and Prosopium) found usually in cold northern waters b. any of various fishes resembling the true whitefishes c. British any of various market fishes with white flesh that is not oily 2. the flesh of a whitefish especially as an article of food

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. same or -fishes) any freshwater fish of the genus Coregonus etc., of the trout family, and used esp. for food.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Whitefish White"fish`, n. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any one of several species of Coregonus, a genus of excellent food fishes allied to the salmons. They inhabit the lakes of the colder parts of North America, Asia, and Europe. The largest and most important American species (C. clupeiformis) is abundant in the Great Lakes, and in other lakes farther north. Called also lake whitefish, and Oswego bass. (b) The menhaden. (c) The beluga, or white whale. Note: Various other fishes are locally called whitefish, as the silver salmon, the whiting (a), the yellowtail, and the young of the bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Silver plover (Zo["o]l.), the knot. Silver salmon (Zo["o]l.), a salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) native of both coasts of the North Pacific. It ascends all the American rivers as far south as the Sacramento. Called also kisutch, whitefish, and white salmon. Silver shell (Zo["o]l.), a marine bivalve of the genus Anomia. See Anomia.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Menhaden Men*ha"den, n. (Zo["o]l.) An American marine fish of the Herring familt (Brevoortia tyrannus), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc.