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[
"beluga",
"beluga"
],
[
"sturgeon",
"sturgeon"
],
[
"whale",
"whale"
]
]
}
],
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{
"word": "kilch"
},
{
"word": "white-fish"
}
],
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{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "sig",
"sense": "fish of the genus Coregonus",
"word": "սիգ"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "fish of the genus Coregonus",
"word": "siig"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fish of the genus Coregonus",
"word": "siika"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fish of the genus Coregonus",
"word": "Coregonen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fish of the genus Coregonus",
"word": "Schnäpel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fish of the genus Coregonus",
"word": "Reinanken"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fish of the genus Coregonus",
"word": "Renken"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fish of the genus Coregonus",
"word": "Maränen"
},
{
"code": "gsw",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fish of the genus Coregonus",
"tags": [
"Alemannic-German"
],
"word": "Felch"
},
{
"code": "gsw",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fish of the genus Coregonus",
"tags": [
"Alemannic-German"
],
"word": "Kilch"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "fish of the genus Coregonus",
"word": "siika"
},
{
"code": "lut",
"lang": "Lushootseed",
"sense": "fish of the genus Coregonus",
"word": "bədúł"
},
{
"code": "crk",
"lang": "Plains Cree",
"roman": "atihkamêk",
"sense": "fish of the genus Coregonus",
"word": "ᐊᑎᐦᑲᒣᐠ"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "fish of the genus Coregonus",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sieja"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sig",
"sense": "fish of the genus Coregonus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "сиг"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "fish of the genus Coregonus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sih"
},
{
"code": "sah",
"lang": "Yakut",
"roman": "mayağas",
"sense": "fish of the genus Coregonus",
"word": "майаҕас"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"whitefish"
],
"word": "whitefish"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjective-noun compound nouns",
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English indeclinable nouns",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English nouns with irregular plurals",
"English verbs",
"en:Acipenseriform fish",
"en:Fish",
"en:Freshwater whitefish",
"en:Herrings"
],
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "white",
"3": "fish"
},
"expansion": "white + fish",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "white + fish",
"forms": [
{
"form": "whitefishes",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "whitefishing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "whitefished",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "whitefished",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "whitefish (third-person singular simple present whitefishes, present participle whitefishing, simple past and past participle whitefished)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1894, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, “The Windigo”, in The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, page 169",
"text": "Perhaps he went whitefishing after he had his supper.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1932 March 6, “Fishing Through Ice Is Thrill”, in The Spokesman-Review, 49th year, number 297, Spokane, Wash., part four, page 1",
"text": "“Bill” is said to have whitefished on the lake since Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox first plowed it out.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1986, James Lee Burke, The Lost Get-Back Boogie, Baton Rouge, La., London: Louisiana State University Press, page 213",
"text": "Beth and I whitefished in the broken ice along the banks of the Clark, a fire of driftwood roaring in the wind with the coffeepot set among the coals.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To fish for whitefish."
],
"links": [
[
"fish",
"fish"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "white-fish"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"whitefish"
],
"word": "whitefish"
}
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