clupea harangus

Questions about clupea harangus

What does clupea harangus mean?

clupea harangus means "commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific".

What is another word for clupea harangus?

Close synonyms include herring. 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 clupea harangus a common word?

clupea harangus 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.