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whitefish

whitefish noun: any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus Coregonus, used as food.

Noun

whitefish (plural whitefishes or whitefish)

  1. Any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus Coregonus, used as food.
  2. Any of several other fish, such as whiting (Merlangius merlangus) or menhaden (Brevoortia spp. and Ethmidium spp.).
  3. Any of several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly cod, whiting, and haddock, as opposed to the oily or pelagic fishes.
  4. A beluga (both the sturgeon and the whale).
  5. A lesser queenfish (Scomberoides lysan)

Verb

whitefish (third-person singular simple present whitefishes, present participle whitefishing, simple past and past participle whitefished)

  1. To fish for whitefish.
    • “Perhaps he went whitefishing after he had his supper.”1894, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, “The Windigo”, in The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge...
    • “Bill” is said to have whitefished on the lake since Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox first plowed it out.1932 March 6, “Fishing Through Ice Is Thrill”, in The Spokesman-Review, 49th year, number 297, Spokane, Wash., part four, page 1

whitefish meaning in Tamil

whitefish in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Synonyms of whitefish

Forms of whitefish

Noun
pluralwhitefishes
pluralwhitefish
alternative formwhite-fish
Verb
third-person singular presentwhitefishes
present participlewhitefishing
past participlewhitefished
pastwhitefished

Plural of whitefish: whitefishes or whitefish

Origin of whitefish

From white + fish.

Words formed from whitefish

Phrases with whitefish

Questions about whitefish

What does whitefish mean?
Whitefish means any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus Coregonus, used as food.
What is whitefish in Tamil?
Whitefish in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Whitefish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is whitefish?
Whitefish can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of whitefish?
The plural of whitefish is whitefishes.

Words near whitefish in the dictionary

  1. whitefin
  2. whitefin dolphin
  3. whitefin dolphins
  4. whitefin shark
  5. whitefin sharks
  6. whitefish
  7. Whitefish Bay
  8. whitefisher
  9. whitefisheries
  10. whitefishers
  11. whitefishery

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whitefish (page history and authors); whitefish (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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