menhaden

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menhaden

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Brevoortia

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Wikispecies has information on:

Ethmidium

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• menhadden, manhaden

From Narragansett munnawhatteaug (“they fertilize”), influenced by poghaden.

• IPA^(key): /mɛn.heɪ.d(ə)n/
• Rhymes: -eɪdən

menhaden (plural menhaden or menhadens)

1. Any of several species of fish in the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium, used for fish meal, fish oil, fertilizer, and bait.

   Synonyms: (US regional) bunker, mossbanker, mossbunker, (obsolete) mossyback, pauhagen, poghaden

   • 1970, Bulletin of the Florida State Museum: Biological sciences, Florida State Museum:

     Divergence of the largescaled menhadens from the small-scaled menhadens resulted either from geographic isolation or different habitat preferences.

• menhaden oil

From English menhaden.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmenhɑden/, [ˈme̞nhɑ̝de̞n]
• Rhymes: -enhɑden
• Hyphenation^(key): men‧ha‧den

menhaden

1. menhaden (fish)