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whitefish

menhaden \men*ha"den\, n. (Zo["o]l.) An American marine fish ( Brevoortia tyrannus) of the Herring family ( Clupeidae), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
whitefish

collective name for cod, haddock, hake, sole, etc., mid-15c., from white (adj.) + fish (n.).

Wiktionary
whitefish

n. 1 Any of many fish. 2 # Any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus ''Coregonus'', used as food. 3 # Any of several other fish, such as whiting or menhaden. 4 # (context fisheries English) Any of several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly cod, whiting, and haddock, as opposed to the oily or pelagic fishes. 5 The beluga (both the sturgeon and the whale)

WordNet
whitefish
  1. n. any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring

  2. flesh of salmon- or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere

  3. silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere

  4. [also: whitefishes (pl)]

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Whitefish, MT -- U.S. city in Montana
Population (2000): 5032
Housing Units (2000): 2652
Land area (2000): 4.419822 sq. miles (11.447287 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.034652 sq. miles (0.089747 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.454474 sq. miles (11.537034 sq. km)
FIPS code: 79825
Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location: 48.411772 N, 114.339865 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 59937
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Whitefish (fisheries term)

Whitefish or white fish is a fisheries term referring to several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly cod (Gadus morhua), Caspian kutum (Rutilus kutum), whiting (Merluccius bilinearis), and haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), but also hake (Urophycis), pollock (Pollachius), or others. Whitefish ( Coregonidae) is also the name of several species of Atlantic freshwater fish, so the use of the two-word term 'white fish' is less misleading.

White fish live on or near the seafloor, and can be contrasted with the oily or pelagic fish which live in the water column away from the seafloor. Unlike oily fish, white fish contain oils only in their liver, rather than in their gut, and can therefore be gutted as soon as they are caught, on board the ship. White fish have dry and white flesh.

White fish can be divided into benthopelagic fish (round fish which live near the sea bed, such as cod and coley) and benthic fish (which live on the sea bed, such as flatfish like plaice).

White fish is sometimes eaten straight but is often used reconstituted for fishsticks, gefilte fish, lutefisk, surimi (imitation crabmeat), etc. For centuries it was preserved by drying as stockfish and clipfish and traded as a world commodity. It is commonly used as the fish in the classic British dish of fish and chips.

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Usage examples of "whitefish".

As a matter of fact, Otsego Lake has been stocked with whitefish fry from the Great Lakes, and now the nets of fishermen are always filled with a mixture of whitefish and Otsego bass.

He holds that Otsego bass is quite distinct from whitefish, but believes that the true Otsego bass has disappeared, giving place to a hybrid fish, now called Otsego bass, but really a cross between that variety and the whitefish with which Otsego has been stocked from the Great Lakes.

Thus, being asleep in a nook behind the metal refuse-can, when the strange cat ventured to ascend the steps of the porch, his appearance was so unwarlike that the cat felt encouraged to extend its field of reconnaissance for the cook had been careless, and the backbone of a three-pound whitefish lay at the foot of the refuse-can.

Labrador whitefish which has become dwarfed in size by some peculiarities of its habitat.

Boil a large whitefish in salted and acidulated water, adding a bunch of parsley and a sliced onion to the water.

Clean, trim, and split a large whitefish, season with salt, pepper, and oil, and broil.

Put a cleaned and split whitefish on a wire broiler, season with salt and cayenne, lay a few thin slices of bacon on top, put the broiler on a baking-pan, and cook in the oven without turning.

Dip the fillets of whitefish in beaten egg, then in crumbs, then in egg, then in crumbs, and lastly in beaten egg.

Cut a large cleaned whitefish into fillets, removing as much as possible of the bone.

Stuff a large whitefish with seasoned crumbs, put into a buttered baking-pan, rub with butter, dredge with seasoned flour, add one cupful of Claret, and bake.

Butter a fish-plank and tack a large cleaned and split whitefish on it, skin side down.

Clean and split a large whitefish, remove the bone, and tack on a buttered fish-plank, skin-side down.

Steam a large whitefish until tender, take out the bones, and flake fine.

Boil two pounds of whitefish in salted and acidulated water, with four bay-leaves, a tablespoonful of pepper-corns, and half a dozen cloves.

Put a large whitefish in a buttered baking-pan with salt, pepper, grated nutmeg, minced parsley, chopped onions, and mushrooms to season.