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say it: men-HAY-duhn
menhaden is a noun meaning "shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer". It is pronounced /mɛnˈheɪdən/ — men-HAY-duhn. It carries one recorded sense.
shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for menhaden come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.