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Noun
1. Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii)Usually written using kana alone
Wikipedia definition
2. Pacific herringThe Pacific herring, Clupea pallasii, is a species of the herring family associated with the Pacific Ocean environment of North America and northeast Asia. It is a silvery fish with unspined fins and a deeply forked caudal fin. The distribution is widely along the California coast from Baja California north to Alaska and the Bering Sea; in Asia the distribution is south to Japan.
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鯡 【にしん】鰊 【かど】ニシン

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