Dictionary entry details
• WHITING (noun)
Meaning:
Flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("whiting" is a kind of...):
saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)
Holonyms ("whiting" is a part of...):
Gadus merlangus; Merlangus merlangus; whiting (a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus)
Meaning:
Flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("whiting" is a kind of...):
saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)
Holonyms ("whiting" is a part of...):
Merluccius bilinearis; silver hake; whiting (found off Atlantic coast of North America)
whiting (any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters)
Meaning:
A small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("whiting" is a kind of...):
percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)
Holonyms ("whiting" is a member of...):
genus Sillago; Sillago (type genus of the Sillaginidae)
Meaning:
Any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("whiting" is a kind of...):
sciaenid; sciaenid fish (widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound)
Meronyms (parts of "whiting"):
whiting (flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "whiting"):
Menticirrhus littoralis; silver whiting (a dull silvery whiting of southern Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States)
corbina; Menticirrhus undulatus (bluish-grey whiting of California coast)
Menticirrhus saxatilis; northern whiting (whiting of the east coast of United States; closely resembles king whiting)
king whiting; Menticirrhus americanus (whiting of the southeastern coast of North America)
kingfish (any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast)
Holonyms ("whiting" is a member of...):
genus Menticirrhus; Menticirrhus (kingfishes; whiting)
Meaning:
Found off Atlantic coast of North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Merluccius bilinearis; silver hake; whiting
Hypernyms ("whiting" is a kind of...):
hake (any of several marine food fishes related to cod)
Meronyms (parts of "whiting"):
whiting (flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America)
Meaning:
A food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Gadus merlangus; Merlangus merlangus; whiting
Hypernyms ("whiting" is a kind of...):
gadoid; gadoid fish (a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae)
Meronyms (parts of "whiting"):
whiting (flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe)
Holonyms ("whiting" is a member of...):
genus Merlangus; Merlangus (whitings)
