Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

menhaden

menhaden , noun

(Zoology) An American marine fish (Brevoortia tyrannus) of the Herring family (Clupeidae), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc.