menhaden

menhaden Definition

☆ men·ha·den (men hād′'n)

noun pl. -·den or -·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”

menhaden Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

oil: Lipid peroxidation in rat tissue slices: effect of dietary vitamin E, corn oil-lard and menhaden oil.

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