shad
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ʃæd/
shad (plural shad)
- Any one of several species of food fishes that make up the genus Alosa in the family Clupeidae, to which the herrings also belong; river herring.
- 2003, Edith Grossman, translator, Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale, Chapter 1
- Each river had its village and its iron bridge that the train crossed with a blast of its whistle, and the girls bathing in the icy water leaped like shad as it passed, unsettling travelers with their fleeting breasts.
- 2003, Edith Grossman, translator, Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale, Chapter 1
- (South Africa) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).
- French: alose
- German: Maifisch
- Italian: agone, alosa
- Portuguese: sável
- Russian: шэд
- Spanish: alosa, sábalo
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