herrings

Noun

herring (plural herrings or herring)

1. A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.
   • Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
2. Fish in the family Clupeidae.
3. Those fish and any other fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes.

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