atlantic herring

1. 1.

   important food fish; found in enormous shoals in the northern Atlantic

   SynonymsClupea harengus harengus

   Broaderherring

   Part ofClupea

Questions about atlantic herring

What does atlantic herring mean?

atlantic herring means "important food fish; found in enormous shoals in the northern Atlantic".

What is another word for atlantic herring?

Close synonyms include Clupea harengus harengus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is atlantic herring a common word?

atlantic herring is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.