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

2 senses of herring

Sense 1
herring -- (valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled)
       => saltwater fish -- (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)

Sense 2
herring, Clupea harangus -- (commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific)
       => clupeid fish, clupeid -- (any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas)
       => food fish -- (any fish used for food by human beings)