lake herring

Noun lake herring has 2 senses

• lake herring(n = noun.food) cisco - cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward;
is a part of cisco, coregonus artedi, lake herring
is a kind of whitefish

• lake herring(n = noun.animal) cisco, coregonus artedi - important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America;
is a kind of whitefish
is a member of coregonus, genus coregonus
has parts: cisco, lake herring