lake whitefish
- noun
- /leɪk ˈwaɪtˌfɪʃ/
- US
:
pez blanco de lago
- Fishermen on Lake Michigan catch large numbers of lake whitefish each year.
Examples
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The lake whitefish is a popular dish in many restaurants.
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The restaurant's specialty is smoked lake whitefish served with lemon and dill.
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Commercial harvesting of lake whitefish is an important industry in some northern regions.
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Many anglers seek the lake whitefish during the fishing season.
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The lake whitefish is a popular catch among anglers in the Great Lakes region.
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Many restaurants in the area offer recipes featuring lake whitefish as a special dish.
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During the summer, we love to fish for lake whitefish in the clear waters of the northern lakes.
Synonyms
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3.5
A fish with white flesh that people eat
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2.0
A water animal that lives in rivers or lakes and people eat
A freshwater fish with white flesh found from the Great Lakes to Alaska, eaten and sold for food
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a freshwater fish associated with lakes' is directly derivable from combining 'lake' (an inland body of water) with 'whitefish' (a fish with white flesh), indicating a type/type-by-location compound. This noun-noun compositional pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Lake whitefish comes from a simple picture: a pale fish called whitefish that lives in a lake. So lake whitefish means a fish that lives in lakes and is often used as a 'food fish'.