menhaden

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsBrevoortia tyrannis

   Broaderclupeid fish

   Part ofBrevoortia

Other forms of menhaden

plural

menhadens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about menhaden

What does menhaden mean?

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

How many syllables are in menhaden?

menhaden has 3 syllables: men-ha-den. The stress falls on "ha". In IPA it is /mɛnˈheɪdən/.

What is another word for menhaden?

Close synonyms include Brevoortia tyrannis. 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 menhaden a common word?

menhaden 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.