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herring
[ her-ing ]
noun
- an important food fish, Clupea harengus harengus, found in enormous shoals in the North Atlantic.
- a similar fish, Clupea harengus pallasii, of the North Pacific.
- any fish of the family Clupeidae, including herrings, shads, and sardines.
- any of various fishes resembling the herring but of unrelated families.
herring
/ ˈhɛrɪŋ /
noun
- any marine soft-finned teleost fish of the family Clupeidae, esp Clupea harengus, an important food fish of northern seas, having an elongated body covered, except in the head region, with large fragile silvery scales
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Other Words From
- herring·like adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of herring1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of herring1
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Idioms and Phrases
see dead as a doornail (herring) ; red herring .Discover More
Example Sentences
Koenig makes a big deal out of this call and frames it as a massive red herring.
Nevertheless, Brian Rogers, a McCain aide pushed back against UANI, calling the Rio Tinto-Iran connection “a red herring.”
This can easily be mistaken for a kipper, the smoked herring that is on the breakfast menus of many British hotels.
“All the recent notoriety is just an added bonus to the fact that we are doing what we love,” says Herring.
“I feel like a lot of people missed it,” says Herring, despondently.
During the other seasons there are other kinds of fish, but at that time it was the Herring season.
He forgets, you see, that he possessed an unusual constitution, and the temperament of a Norwegian herring.
The Judge inquired if that was the sole object of the plaintiff, or was it not rather baiting with a sprat to catch a herring?
There are an extensive mackerel and herring fishery, and motor engineering works.
But we have to discuss the red-herring, not of the artful politician, anxious to dodge his hearers, but of the breakfast-table.
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