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noun

• small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water

• small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters

verb

• extract (metals) by heating

35%6 New Zealand whitebait
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33%7Whitebait, e.g.
noun

• valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled

• commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific

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