Definitions for alewife
Overview of noun alewife
The noun alewife has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. alewife
(flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams)
2. alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus
(shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus)






