Hyphenation of alewife

Are you trying to hyphenate alewife? Unfortunately it cannot be hyphenated because it only contains one syllable.

alewife

Definitions of alewife:

1.	Flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams
2.	Shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn Often salted or smoked Sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus

Synonyms of alewife:

noun	fish
noun	Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus, clupeid fish, clupeid

Last hyphenations of this language

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