brevoortia tyrannis

1. 1.

   shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer

   Synonymsmenhaden

   Broaderclupeid fish

   Part ofBrevoortia

Questions about brevoortia tyrannis

What does brevoortia tyrannis mean?

brevoortia tyrannis means "shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer".

What is another word for brevoortia tyrannis?

Close synonyms include menhaden. 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 brevoortia tyrannis a common word?

brevoortia tyrannis 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.