Alewife definition

Alewife

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WordNet

(1) Shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus

(2) Flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams

WiktionaryText

+ ; perhaps alteration of earlier allowes 'a kind of shad,' from French alose 'shad' (Merriam-Webster).

A North American fish of the herring family. The name is locally applied to other related species.