herring

Phonetic Respelling: [ her-ing ]

Definition:

n. a valuable food fish that is very common in the north Atlantic Ocean

Sentence:

We ate pickled herring.

More example sentences:

We ate pickled herring.

Hear it

Which bird is described as handsome with a beak that can hold up to two dozen herring at one time?

Hear it

I just had the best Norwegian herring.

Hear it

What was the red herring in this book?

Hear it

Mark gave the detective a red herring clue about the missing ball.

Hear it

Synonyms:

food fish; Atlantic fish; edible fish

Antonyms:

sea gull