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SHAD

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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.


English dictionary: Word details


SHAD (noun)


Sense 1shad [BACK TO TOP]

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)


Sense 2shad [BACK TO TOP]

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)


English Proverbs
"No cows, no cares."
(English proverb)
"Flesh of man - mends itself"
(Breton proverb)
"He who was left by the bald is taken by the hairy."
(Arabic proverb)
"The death of one person means bread for another."
(Dutch proverb)


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