MACKEREL SHAD

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Meaning:

Small silvery fish; Nova Scotia to Brazil

Synonyms:

Decapterus macarellus; mackerel scad; mackerel shad

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("mackerel shad" is a kind of...):

scad (any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae)

Holonyms ("mackerel shad" is a member of...):

Decapterus; genus Decapterus (scads especially mackerel scad; cosmopolitan in distribution)

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