Crossword-Solution: MENHADEN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Menhaden | n. | An American marine fish of the Herring familt (Brevoortia tyrannus), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “MENHADEN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| mossbunker | 1 answer |
| marine N American fish, source of fishmeal, fertilizer, and oil | 1 answer |
| Silver-scaled swimmer | 1 answer |
| Shad-like marine fishes | 1 answer |
| Sea fish yielding oil. | 1 answer |
| Sea fish used for bait. | 1 answer |
| Most abundant of fishes on Atlantic coast. | 1 answer |
| Most abundant Atlantic Coast fish | 1 answer |
| Fish used for fertilizer | 1 answer |
| Cousin of a herring | 2 answers |
| HARDHEAD | 2 answers |
| Atlantic Coast catch | 2 answers |
| Herring's cousin | 4 answers |
| Most abundant | 4 answers |
| Fish of the herring family | 4 answers |
| SHAD-like fish | 5 answers |
| OILY fish | 8 answers |
| Herringlike fish | 12 answers |
| bony fish | 16 answers |
| sea fish | 18 answers |
| Herring | 19 answers |
| ATLANTIC fish | 31 answers |
| FISH, type of | 73 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with MENHADEN (5)
All of these lie further out to sea than George's, and are tenanted only by cod and halibut, though in the waters near the shore the fishermen pursue the mackerel, the herring--which, in cottonseed oil masquerades as American sardines--and the menhaden, used chiefly for fertilizer.
The boats used in the fisheries are virtually of the same model, whatever the fish they may seek--except in the case of the menhaden fishery, which more and more is being prosecuted in slow-going steamers, with machines for hauling seines, and trawl nets.
Bits of spotted and mackerel-back sky swam like hosts of menhaden through the pearly sheen of the more open aërial main.
But the menhaden fishery is valuable just the same, for there's more oil and better oil got every year from menhaden than there is whale oil.
Some of 'em are converted steam yachts, some are sea-goin' tugs, and then again some are just old menhaden fish-boats painted gray with a few three-inch guns stuck around on 'em casual.
Quotes with MENHADEN (1)
It was one of those rare moments where one has a vision of the scope of the wild ocean. Not just small cylinders firing to keep a tiny engine running, but rather the giant, massive gears of nature, each one with its own reasoning, its own meta-logic, spinning in its particular circle in competition or in confluence with the gear below it. We zeroed in on the school, but our progress was painfully slow, It would have been foolish to speed into the tumult-we would have ruined o…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1955–2008).