English language
Toggle Transcript
alewife::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | alosa pseudoharengus, pomolobus pseudoharengus |
| Type of | clupeid, clupeid fish |
alewife::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | fish |
Examples of alewife
alewife
Next time you go to a bar, call the barman an alewife and see what he does to you.
From the newscientist.com
The alewife first entered the system west of Lake Ontario via 19th-century canals.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Any alewife taking the Babylon Village fish ladder would have a much shorter swim.
From the newsday.com
Pier anglers are catching alewife in cast nets but not trout or salmon were caught.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Pier fishing was slow due to the large number of alewife in the harbor.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Dan Valasek of Butler, caught July 11 in Lake Arthur on an alewife.
From the post-gazette.com
Alewife is best known as the end of the Red Line, the last stop for thousands of commuters.
From the boston.com
The best bet in recent days was bottom-fishing shad or alewife.
From the post-gazette.com
Alewife populations, high in 2008, led to good Chinook results.
From the buffalonews.com
- Flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams
- Shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus
- The alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) is a species of herring. There are anadromous and landlocked forms. The landlocked form is also called a sawbelly or mooneye (although this latter name is more commonly applied to Hiodon spp.). ...
- Alewife Station, located at the intersection of Alewife Brook Parkway and Cambridgepark West in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a local intermodal transportation hub. It is the northern terminus of the MBTA's Red Line, and a bus terminal for several local routes. It opened on March 30, 1985.
- Alewife was a cache coherent multiprocessor developed in the early 1990s by a group led by Anant Agarwal at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...
- A woman who keeps an alehouse
- One of the most popular members of the herring family, the alewife is anadromous (it spawns in fresh water). This fish provides high-fat flesh with a fine, soft, texture.
- By Tom Marcais - Tuesday, April 3, 2007, 11:58 AM
- Female Inn or Alehouse Keeper.
