herring
A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.
Other meanings
Fish in the family Clupeidae.
Those fish and any other fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes.
A kind of
- saltwater fish
Kinds of herring
- pickled herring
- red herring
Related words
- Atlantic herring
- Baltic herring
- denticle herring
- Pacific herring
- round herring
Word history
From Old English "hǣring".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “herring” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.