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Answer for the clue "Menhaden ", 7 letters:
oldwife

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. tropical Atlantic fish [syn: queen triggerfish , Bessy cerca , oldwench , Balistes vetula ] a common long-tailed sea duck of the northern parts of the United States [syn: old squaw , Clangula hyemalis ] [also: oldwives (pl)]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Old \Old\, a. [Compar. Older ; superl. Oldest .] [OE. old, ald, AS. ald, eald; akin to D. oud, OS. ald, OFries. ald, old, G. alt, Goth. alpeis, and also to Goth. alan to grow up, Icel. ala to bear, produce, bring up, L. alere to nourish. Cf. Adult , Alderman ...

Usage examples of oldwife.

An oldwife in the lower city had done it in a cramped little back room.

They are sorcerers, herbalists, oldwives and even, God save us, mages.

As I write they are being attended on the gundeck by Brother Ortelius and some of the oldwives aboard.

A couple of the oldwives have sat with me and kept wound-sickness at bay.

Groupers, parrot fish, and oldwives cruised goggling through the arches, amid moving clouds of small bright-colored fish.