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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus Coregonus, used as food..
“Perhaps he went whitefishing after he had his supper.”
“Bill” is said to have whitefished on the lake since Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox first plowed it out.
Beth and I whitefished in the broken ice along the banks of the Clark, a fire of driftwood roaring in the wind with the coffeepot set among the coals.
Use whitefish when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Whitefish means Any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus Coregonus, used as food..
Common synonyms include kilch.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
“Perhaps he went whitefishing after he had his supper.”
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