Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun alewife

2 senses of alewife

Sense 1
alewife -- (flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams)
       => fish -- (the flesh of fish used as food; "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"; "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat"; "they have a chef who specializes in fish")

Sense 2
alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus -- (shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus)
       => clupeid fish, clupeid -- (any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas)