Menhaden Definition

mĕn-hādn
menhadens
noun
Any of a genus (Brevoortia) of clupeid fishes of the W Atlantic, used for bait or for making oil and fertilizer.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • Brevoortia tyrannis

Other Word Forms of Menhaden

Noun

Singular:
menhaden
Plural:
menhadens

Origin of Menhaden

  • Probably blend of Narragansett munnawhatteaûg a herring-like fish (akin to munnohquohteau he enriches the land) (from its use as a fertilizer) American English dialectal (New England) poghaden menhaden (probably of Algonquian origin)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Narragansett munnawhatteaug (“they fertilize"), influenced by poghaden.

    From Wiktionary

Menhaden Sentence Examples

  • Large numbers of shad, blue fish, weak fish (squeteague), alewives, Spanish mackerel, perch, bass, croakers (Micropogon undulatus), mullet, menhaden, oysters and clams are caught in the sounds, in the lower courses of the rivers flowing into them, or in the neighbouring waters of the sea.

  • The fisheries are chiefly of shad, oysters, mullet, alewives, clams, black bass, menhaden, croakers and bluefish.

  • Peckham, but others have held that it is of exclusively animal origin, a view supported by such occurrences as those in the orthoceratities of the Trenton limestone, and by the experiments of C. Engler, who obtained a liquid like crude petroleum by the distillation of menhaden (fish) oil.

  • Its scientific name is Clupea (or Alosa) menhaden and Brevoortia tyrannus.

  • The average size of the menhaden is about 12 in.

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