What does herring mean?
Herring means A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food..
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/ˈhɛɹɪŋ/ · noun
A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food..
Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
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Herring means A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food..
Common synonyms include clupea harangus.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
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