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

6 senses of whiting

Sense 1
whiting -- (flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe)
       => saltwater fish -- (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)

Sense 2
whiting -- (flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America)
       => saltwater fish -- (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)

Sense 3
whiting -- (a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish)
       => percoid fish, percoid, percoidean -- (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Sense 4
whiting -- (any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters)
       => sciaenid fish, sciaenid -- (widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound)

Sense 5
silver hake, Merluccius bilinearis, whiting -- (found off Atlantic coast of North America)
       => hake -- (any of several marine food fishes related to cod)

Sense 6
whiting, Merlangus merlangus, Gadus merlangus -- (a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus)
       => gadoid, gadoid fish -- (a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb white

1 sense of white

Sense 1
whiten, white -- (turn white; "This detergent will whiten your laundry")
       => discolor, discolour, colour, color -- (change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored")