Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Menhaden
Men·ha′den (mĕn·hā′d'n), n. (Zoöl.) An American marine fish of the Herring family (Brevoortia tyrannus), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; — called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc.