menhaden 的定义
plural men·ha·den.
- any marine clupeid fish of the genus Brevoortia, especially B. tyrannus, resembling a shad but with a more compressed body, common along the eastern coast of the U.S., and used for making oil and fertilizer.
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- Menhaden fish, found near the surface of the water, are inedible but are now being used for making fertilizer and oil in Virginia.
- Menhaden have been seen floating at the surface which have been cut nearly in twain by a blow of a sword.
- When fishing for these in the swift tideways, menhaden bait is used.
- Salted menhaden and the refuse from scallops are ground up together, forming a mass of about the consistency of thick molasses.
- By the end of the Civil War the menhaden catch along the coast of Maine was beginning to drop off.