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Alewife Common

Alewife has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams

2

shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus

3

A woman who keeps an alehouse.

4

A migrating North American fish, Alosa pseudoharengus.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
fish clupeid fish
Rhyming Words
ife fife kife nife wife rife knife neife shife alife spife trife elwife relife strife recife exwife tidife mylife unlife
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