"alewife" in the noun sense
1. alewife
flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams
2. alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus
shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn often salted or smoked sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus
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