Meaning of SCAD
| Pronunciation: | | skad
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| | Definition: | | [n] any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae |
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| | See Also: | | bigeye scad, big-eyed scad, carangid, carangid fish, Carangidae, cigarfish, Decapterus macarellus, Decapterus punctatus, family Carangidae, goggle-eye, horse mackerel, jack mackerel, mackerel scad, mackerel shad, quiaquia, round scad, saurel, Selar crumenophthalmus, Spanish mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus, Trachurus trachurus | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Scad\, n. [Gael. & Ir. sgadan a herring.] (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A small carangoid fish ({Trachurus saurus}) abundant on
the European coast, and less common on the American. The
name is applied also to several allied species.
(b) The goggler; -- called also {big-eyed scad}. See
{Goggler}.
(c) The friar skate. [Scot.]
(d) The cigar fish, or round robin.
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