Alewife (multiprocessor)
WordNet

noun


(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
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Etymology


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

Noun


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