alewife
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ale + wife; perhaps alteration of earlier allowes 'a kind of shad,' from French alose 'shad' (Merriam-Webster).
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alewife (plural alewives)
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alewife (plural alewives)
- A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the herring family. The name is locally applied to other related species.