Synonyms for herring
ˈhɛr ɪŋher·ring

Princeton's WordNet

1. herringnoun

   valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled

2. herring, Clupea harangusnoun

   commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific

Matched Categories

1. • Clupeid Fish
   • Food Fish
   • Saltwater Fish

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1. List of paraphrases for "herring":

   kipper, silvery, sill, codfish

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1. Charles Herring:

   Herring Networks , Inc. is getting really hard to find just the reliable, credible, fact-based news with substance, the second component is to provide a platform where more voices can be heard, voices that are ignored, libertarian and conservative voices.

2. Gerald Hassell:

   Headcount can be a bit of a red herring in terms of analysis.

3. Joana Carmo:

   Anisakis can infect salmon, herring, cod, mackerel, squids, halibut and red snapper.

4. Van Beurden:

   The divest campaign, or Keep it in the Ground or the carbon bubble, ignore reality that 80 percent of the investment in the industry has to be done just to stand still to arrest decline. It is a red herring, it is a very seductive argument and that is why it catches on, but it is a red herring.

5. Michael Brown:

   Since that time, restoration projects on the Penobscot River and many smaller rivers now allow river herring to access traditional spawning habitat, a result of the restoration activities is the expanding river herring resources we are seeing in Maine today.