Synonym: Clupea harangus. Similar words: erring, unerring, derring-do, herringbone, red herring, referring, transferring, lactoferrin. Meaning: ['herɪŋ] n. 1. valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled 2. commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific.
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31 The herring gulls are local resident birds, and great opportunists, able to change their feeding habits to whatever is available.
32 The overfishing of herring and other fish has caused problems for bird species dependent on these stocks, particularly in wintertime.
33 When a herring meets its end, it is usually in the mouth of a bigger fish or a in a net.
34 You could walk from there till your feet ached, and still you'd see nothing but herring.
35 Add the herring fillets and cook for 2 minutes on both sides over a gentle heat.
36 His racial theory was almost certainly a red herring, 5 but the notion of selective mate choice was not.
37 The herring was never quite considered a member of the fish family.
38 Herring, herring! until you were sick to death of them.
39 Soused herring was the standard hospital breakfast and she declared she couldn't stomach that at seven o clock in the morning.
40 A very tame herring gull perched on the rail throughout most of the crossing.
41 Marauding birds such as herring gulls will grab and swallow a chick if they get a chance.
42 If the barracuda charges, the herring flee away on every side, creating a clear tunnel through the shoal.
43 But the plunder is just part of the over-fishing that dates back to the 1960s, when North Sea herring were annihilated.
44 Edusha brewed tea, putting herring roe, cheese, and butter on the table.
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45 Mr. Renton I disagree with my hon. Friend about the agencies being neither fish nor fowl nor good red herring.
46 Up in the hills are the gull colonies, herring gull and lesser black-backed, on the shores of inland windswept lochs.
47 What hope can they have, if they see you slumping about like a filleted herring, wallowing in self-pity?
48 If you are on a strict diet, leave the salmon, mackerel, kippers and herring for the moment.
49 The herring fleet was moored well inland, and the water was oil-tarnished.
50 A young flatfish starts life swimming near the surface, and it is symmetrical and vertically flattened just like a herring.
51 Girls, caught by the arm, have snow rubbed into their hair like salt into a herring.
52 A red herring swallowed one then there were three.
53 These fish include herring, mackerel and salmon.
54 Even so, Herring still any details of the accident.
55 And the pickled herring platter looks good(Sentencedict.com), too.
56 Nari Herring walked leisurely along the sand.
57 They can't poach herring from our waters.
58 The subsidies debate is a red herring.
59 They cannot poach for herring form our waters.
60 The minister had masterminded a ring that smuggled caviar in cans labeled " herring " to Western Europe.
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