Noun alewife has 2 senses
  1. alewife - flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams
    --1 is a kind of
    fish
    --1 is a part of alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus
  2. alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus - shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus
    --2 is a kind of clupeid fish, clupeid
    --2 is a member of Alosa, genus Alosa
    --2 has parts: alewife
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