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herring

any marine soft-finned teleost fish of the family Clupeidae, esp Clupea harengus, an important food fish of northern seas, having an elongated body covered, except in the head region, with large fragile silvery scales
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herring

[′her·iŋ]
(vertebrate zoology)
The common name for fishes composing the family Clupeidae; fins are soft-rayed and have no supporting spines, there are usually four gill clefts, and scales are on the body but absent on the head.
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