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I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.
Jennifer Egan

Meaning of "alewives" in the English dictionary

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WHAT DOES ALEWIVES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Alewife

The alewife is an anadromous species of herring found in North America. Alewives reach a maximum length of about 40 centimeters, but have an average length of about 25 centimeters. The front of the body is deep and larger than other fish found in the same waters, and its common name is said to come from comparison with a corpulent female tavernkeeper. In Atlantic Canada it is known as the gaspereau. In southwestern Nova Scotia, it is called a kiack. The word "gaspereau" comes from the Acadian French word "gasparot", first mentioned by Nicolas Denys. William Francis Ganong, New Brunswick biologist and historian, wrote: Gaspereau, or Gasparot. Name of a common salt-water fish of Acadia, first used, so far as I can find, by Denys in 1672. Nowhere can I find any clue to its origin. It seems not to be Indian. Acadians named two rivers after the fish, the Gaspereau River in Nova Scotia and the Gaspereaux River in New Brunswick. In the Southeast US, when sold and used as bait, the fish is often referred to as "LY". There are anadromous and landlocked forms. The landlocked form is also called a sawbelly or mooneye.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ALEWIVES

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WORDS THAT END LIKE ALEWIVES

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Translator English - Chinese

alewives
1,325 millions of speakers

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alosas
570 millions of speakers

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alewives
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alewives
380 millions of speakers
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علويون
280 millions of speakers

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278 millions of speakers

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sáveis
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alewives
260 millions of speakers

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gaspareau
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Alewives
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Alewives
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Alewives
85 millions of speakers
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alewives
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alewives
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Alewives
70 millions of speakers

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alewives
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alewives
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alewives
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alewives
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alewives
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about alewives

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Jennifer Egan
I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALEWIVES»

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Ken Schultz's Field Guide to Saltwater Fish
Sea-run alewives extend from Newfoundland and the Gulf of St. Lawrence to South Carolina. Alewives were introduced into the upper Great Lakes and into many other inland waters, although some naturally landlocked populations exist.
Ken Schultz, 2011
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Ken Schultz's Field Guide to Freshwater Fish
Size. Alewives can grow up to a half pound in weight and to 15 inches in length; they usually average 6 to 12 inches in saltwater and 3 to 6 inches in freshwater. Life history/Behavior. The alewife is a schooling fish and is sometimes found in ...
Ken Schultz, 2010
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Pandora's Locks: The Opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence ...
That alewives were able to thrive in all but the frigid waters of Lake Superior wasn't surprising. Water temperatures in Lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, and Michigan were only slighter colder than the ocean temperatures where the fish originated.
Jeff Alexander, 2011
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Cohannet Alewives and the Ancient Grist Mill at the Falls on ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
James M Cushman, 2012
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Encyclopedia of Invasive Species: From Africanized Honey ...
Alewives are prey for many predators, including native lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush), eels (Anguillidae), bigmouth bass (Micropterus salmoides), and whitefish (Coregonus spp.). Herons and other fish-eating birds take alewives, as do ...
Susan L. Woodward, Joyce A. Quinn, 2011
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Encyclopedia of Invasive Species: From Africanized Honey ...
Alewives are prey for many predators, including native lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush), eels (Anguillidae), bigmouth bass (Micropterus salmoides), and whitefish (Coregonus spp.). Herons and other fish-eating birds take alewives, as do ...
Susan L. Woodward, Joyce A. Quinn, 2011
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Fishery Science: The Unique Contributions of Early Life Stages
Table 11.1 Most native Lake Michigan species with semi-pelagic eggs or larvae that overlapped spatially and temporally with alewife became rare or extinct after alewives became abundant, whereas native species with demersal eggs and ...
Lee A. Fuiman, Robert G. Werner, 2009
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Ecology and animal health
Given the ability of alewives to cause thiamine deficiency in proportion to their importance in the diet of laboratory fish a similar relationship would be expected among wild populations although such a relationship if it exists may have changed ...
Jeffrey M. Levengood, 2012
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Tangier Island: Place, People, and Talk
The menhaden are also known as mossbunker (Northern form), bunker, bigeyes, skipjacks, fatbacks, bugfish, yel- lowtail, and, according to marine biologists, confusingly as ale- wives. Bunkers and alewives, with variants elwives and o' wise, ...
David L. Shores, 2000
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Freshwater Fish of the Northeast
Alewives. most closely resemble blueback herring, a relative alsofound in the Northeast. Alewives have a similar, herring-shaped body, with serrations along their ventral ridges. Both have strongly forked caudal fins and no spines in their fins.
‎2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ALEWIVES»

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Predator-prey dynamic important for anglers to understand
Many Nebraska reservoirs will be so full of young shad or alewives that fish spend very little time feeding. All they have to do is open their ... «Lincoln Journal Star, Jul 15»
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Walleye once shared Lake Erie with sauger, blue pike
... mayfly populations, hybridization with expanding populations of walleyes and predation on the fry by invasive smelt and alewives. «Sandusky Register, Jul 15»
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APA act eases invasive removal
... curlyleaf pondweed and fanwort. Other non-native animals are zebra mussels, spiny waterfleas, Asian clams and alewives. Printable Version. «Albany Times Union, Jul 15»
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Ailing alewives: Biologists tackle limits of artificial controls
Gene Duncil, left, of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources measures a Chinook salmon at the Frankfort Municipal Marina. «Traverse City Record Eagle, Jul 15»
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Alewife decline threatens Lake Michigan's salmon fishery
That was the late 1960s when Lake Michigan's problem with alewives was having too many. State natural resources officials made a bold move ... «Traverse City Record Eagle, Jul 15»
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Fishing Report: Unpredictable weather makes for unpredictable fishing
Pier fishing in Grand Haven has been fair with catches of large alewives and a few perch. In Muskegon, more king salmon have started to show ... «MLive.com, Jul 15»
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Lake Champlain State of the Lake report issued
Data show that native rainbow smelt numbers have declined while alewives have become more abundant. In Vermont, more than 3,300 acres ... «Glens Falls Post-Star, Jul 15»
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Fishing Forecast: When tide is right, it's game on
When I checked in with Bud at Fishbones, he said the best bet for catching keeper stripers is either chumming fresh alewives by anchoring in ... «CapitalGazette.com, Jul 15»
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Saltwater Fishing Report
ZONE 1: There is lots of bait (sand eels, alewives, etc.) and therefore plenty of happy stripers throughout this zone. Shore anglers have been ... «Press Herald, Jul 15»
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Ailing alewives
Record-Eagle/Jan-Michael Stump Gene Duncil, left, of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources measures a Chinook salmon at the ... «Traverse City Record Eagle, Jul 15»

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