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Pos: Noun

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun herring has 2 senses

1. herring(n = noun.food) - valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled;
is a kind of saltwater fish
is a part of clupea harangus, herring
has particulars: kipper, kippered herring, bloater, pickled herring, red herring, smoked herring, brisling, sprat, whitebait

2. herring(n = noun.animal) clupea harangus - commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific;
is a kind of food fish, clupeid, clupeid fish
has parts: herring
is a member of clupea, genus clupea
has particulars: atlantic herring, clupea harengus harengus, clupea harengus pallasii, pacific herring

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

herring, n. [OE. hering, AS. hæring; akin to D. haring, G. häring, hering, OHG. haring, hering, and prob. to AS. here army, and so called because they commonly move in large numbers. Cf. Harry.].

One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (Clupea harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities. [1913 Webster]

Herring gull (Zoöl.), a large gull which feeds in part upon herrings; esp., Larus argentatus in America, and Larus cachinnans in England. See Gull. -- Herring hog (Zoöl.), the common porpoise. -- King of the herrings. (Zoöl.) (a) The chimæra (Chimaera monstrosa) which follows the schools of herring. Called also rabbit fish in the U. K. See Chimæra. (b) The opah.

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

herring, n. a N. Atlantic fish, Clupea harengus, coming near the coast in large shoals to spawn.

Idiom:
herring-gull a large gull, Larus argentatus, with dark wing-tips.

Etymology:
OE h{aelig}ring, hering f. WG