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MACKEREL SCAD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small silvery fish; Nova Scotia to Brazil
Synonyms:
Decapterus macarellus; mackerel scad; mackerel shad
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mackerel scad" is a kind of...):
scad (any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae)
Holonyms ("mackerel scad" is a member of...):
Decapterus; genus Decapterus (scads especially mackerel scad; cosmopolitan in distribution)