| NOUN | food | whitebait | minnows or other small fresh- or saltwater fish (especially herring) |
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| animal | whitebait | the edible young of especially herrings and sprats and smelts |
| Meaning | minnows or other small fresh- or saltwater fish (especially herring); usually cooked whole. | |
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| Broader | herring | Valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific |
| Meaning | The edible young of especially herrings and sprats and smelts. | |
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| Member of | soft-finned fish, malacopterygian | Any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii |
| Broader | young fish | A fish that is young |