A large and valuable food fish, Polyprion oxygeneios, in the family Serranidae of New Zealand.
A blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou), a marine fish of the Northern Hemisphere.
A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc.
Any of several marine fish found in North American coastal waters, including hakes (genus Merluccius), especially Merluccius bilinearis (the silver hake).
A fish, Merlangius merlangus (family Gadidae), similar to cod, found in the North Atlantic; English whiting (US).
Alaska pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus, syn. Theragra chalcogramma).
A southern blue whiting (Micromesistius australis), a marine fish of the Southern Hemisphere.
in family Sciaenidae, Menticirrhus americanus (Carolina whiting, king whiting, southern kingcroaker, and southern kingfish) found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
in family Sillaginidae, smelt-whitings, inhabiting Indo-Pacific marine coasts, many species of which are commercially important whitefish.