Menhaden

[men'heɪd(ə)n]

Definition

(noun.) shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer.

Typed by Edmund--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) An American marine fish of the Herring familt (Brevoortia tyrannus), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc.

Checked by Leroy

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [Sometimes written Manhaden.] Hardhead, pauhaugen, moss-bunker.

Checker: Yale

Definition

n. a species of herring or shad found off the east coast of the United States.

Editor: Miles