alewife

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alewife englannista suomeksi

1. pilkkusilli

1. harmaasilli, kantasilli

alewife englanniksi

1. A woman who keeps an alehouse.

2. A migrating North American fish, (taxlink).

3. (RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)

4. (RQ:Thoreau Cape Cod) and, after the alewives had passed into it, it had stopped up its outlet, and now the alewives were dying by thousands, and the inhabitants were apprehending a pestilence as the water evaporated.

5. (RQ:NYT) every spring — and into other lakes like it along much of the Eastern Seaboard. Farmers used to apply them to their fields as fertilizer, and all along the coast, river herring festivals celebrated their arrival.

6. Any of several species similar in appearance.