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Noun: bloater  blow-tu(r)
  1. Large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked
    "Bloaters were once a popular breakfast food in parts of England"
     
  2. [N. Amer] A small freshwater whitefish (Coregonus hoyi) native to the Great Lakes of North America
    "Bloater populations have begun to recover in Lake Ontario"

Derived forms: bloaters

Type of: herring

Encyclopedia: Bloater