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täpläsilli — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • shad noun A type of herring-like food fish that lives in the sea but spawns in rivers.

Senses

täpläsilli is used for these senses in English:

  • shad Any one of several species of food fishes that make up the genus Alosa in the family Clupeidae, to which the herrings also belong; river herring.
  • twaite shad A fish in the herring family Clupeidae, Alosa fallax, found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

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