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Type genus of the Clupeidae typical herrings
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clupea
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Clupea is genus of planktivorous bony fish belonging to the family Clupeidae , commonly known as herrings . They are found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and the North Atlantic oceans, including the Baltic Sea . Three species of Clupea ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alosa \Alosa\ n. the genus comprising the most common varieties of shad. It replaces the older term {Clupea }. See also shad . Syn: genus Alosa .
Usage examples of clupea.
The Romans landed near the town of Clupea, or Aspis, which they took, and there established their head-quarters.
David was watering the scarlet clupea harengus on the hall table when Marvin Roebuck pressed the buzzer on the front door.
Lucius Caesar the son, who was waiting his arrival near Clupea with ten ships which had been taken near Utica in a war with the pirates, and which Publius Attius had had repaired for this war, frightened at the number of our ships, fled the sea, and running his three-decked covered galley on the nearest shore, left her there and made his escape by land to Adrumetum.