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menhaden definition

☆ men·ha·den (men hād′'n)

noun pl. menhaden -·den or menhadens -·dens

any of a genus (Brevoortia) of clupeid fishes of the W Atlantic, used for bait or for making oil and fertilizer

Etymology: < AmInd (Algonquian) name: orig. sense prob. “fertilizer”

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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