clupeid fish

Questions about clupeid fish

What does clupeid fish mean?

clupeid fish means "any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas".

What is another word for clupeid fish?

Close synonyms include clupeid. 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 clupeid fish a common word?

clupeid fish 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.