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

3 senses of whitefish

Sense 1
whitefish -- (any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring)
       => seafood -- (edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc)

Sense 2
whitefish -- (flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere)
       => freshwater fish -- (flesh of fish from fresh water used as food)

Sense 3
whitefish -- (silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere)
       => soft-finned fish, malacopterygian -- (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)
       => food fish -- (any fish used for food by human beings)