(n.) Any one of several species of Coregonus, a genus of excellent food fishes allied to the salmons. They inhabit the lakes of the colder parts of North America, Asia, and Europe. The largest and most important American species (C. clupeiformis) is abundant in the Great Lakes, and in other lakes farther north. Called also lake whitefish, and Oswego bass.
(n.) The menhaden.
(n.) The beluga, or white whale.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, in 1969-70, dieldrin levels in fish from Lake Huron exceeded the 0.3 ppm tolerance level set by Health and Welfare Canada or the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 5 percent of lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) and 10 percent of bloaters.
(2) The eight cases, six in Israel and two in New York City, resulted from the consumption of ribbetz or kapchunka, a freshwater whitefish soaked in brine and air-dried, that was processed commercially in New York.
(3) Hair cell polarization patterns were investigated on the sensory macule of the sacculus and lagena of the lake whitefish.
(4) Whitefish smaller than 150 mm did not harbour Crepidostomum specimens, but in bigger fish the prevalence and the mean intensity of infection increased to a certain limit as the fish got larger.
(5) Both patients consumed tainted kapchunka, a salted, ungutted whitefish.
(6) Lesions of tuberculosis in mountain whitefish (Prosopium williamsoni) were present in all visceral organs.
(7) However, for ringed seal and whitefish, TEQs obtained from the bioassay were higher than those from the chemical analysis.
(8) The manometric technique was employed to study the initiated oxidation of 7 samples of whitefish lipids of varying sites, to measure the kinetic parameters depending on the fatty acid composition and concentration of tocopherol.
(9) Heat destruction of types B and E Clostridium botulinum spores on whitefish chubs was observed to be dependent upon the relative humidity (RH) in the chamber in which fish were heated.
(10) PCB residues declined in lake trout and lake whitefish caught in Lake Superior between 1971 and 1975, but increased slightly in bloaters and white sucker (Catostomus commersoni).
(11) Whitefish received dose rates of 10 mGy y-1 from internal 226Ra and could have received comparable external dose rates from the sediments when they forage near the lake bottom, as they usually do.
(12) times per year, the most frequent being caribou (145, mean), beluga whale (74), hares (35), muskrat (26), whitefish (52), cisco (39), burbot (38), inconnu (37), Arctic charr (31), geese (44) ducks (19), ptamigan (18), cloudberries (22), cranberries (20) and blueberries (18).
(13) arctic char, salmon, trout, whitefish), and this parasite has never been found in pike and perch, the usual intermediate hosts of D. latum.
(14) The main food allergens include cow's milk, eggs, nuts, shellfish and whitefish.
(15) Plasma from several salmonids (coho, chinook, rainbow trout, brook trout, arctic char, lake trout, and whitefish) as well as plasma from some nonsalmonids (sucker, bluegill) cross-reacted with the antisera; serial dilutions of plasma from rainbow trout, brook trout, chinook salmon, and coho salmon were parallel to the SS-25 standard curve.
(16) As I got started on a delicious whitefish and dill salad, he tucked into fried calamari with genuine enthusiasm.
(17) Bile metabolites in whitefish exposed in control areas confirmed low-level background pollution of the lake system due to chlorinated phenolics.
(18) All eight patients had eaten uneviscerated, salted, air-dried whitefish known as kapchunka.
(19) Tales of giant pike in Ullswater and 18th-century legends of 60lb trout are unverified, but the schelly, an Ice Age whitefish relic unique to just four lakes in Cumbria, grows to weigh about a kilo, but is seldom seen.
(20) Smoked whitefish chubs, containing from one to several hundred spores each, were examined for toxin content after storage at 5, 10, 15, and 28 C for as long as 32 days.