SHAD
Dictionary entry overview: What does shad mean?
• SHAD (noun)
The noun SHAD has 2 senses:
1. bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning; especially of Atlantic coast
2. herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn
Familiarity information: SHAD used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SHAD (noun)
Meaning:
Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning; especially of Atlantic coast
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("shad" is a kind of...):
fish (the flesh of fish used as food)
Holonyms ("shad" is a part of...):
Alosa sapidissima; common American shad (shad of Atlantic coast of North America; naturalized to Pacific coast)
Meaning:
Herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("shad" is a kind of...):
food fish (any fish used for food by human beings)
clupeid; clupeid fish (any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shad"):
Alosa sapidissima; common American shad (shad of Atlantic coast of North America; naturalized to Pacific coast)
Alosa chrysocloris; river shad (shad that spawns in streams of the Mississippi drainage; very similar to Alosa sapidissima)
allice; allice shad; allis; allis shad; Alosa alosa (European shad)
Holonyms ("shad" is a member of...):
Alosa; genus Alosa (shad)
