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SCAD

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("scad" is a kind of...):

carangid; carangid fish (a percoid fish of the family Carangidae)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scad"):

horse mackerel; jack mackerel; saurel; Spanish mackerel; Trachurus symmetricus (a California food fish)

horse mackerel; saurel; Trachurus trachurus (large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe)

big-eyed scad; bigeye scad; goggle-eye; Selar crumenophthalmus (of Atlantic coastal waters; commonly used for bait)

Decapterus macarellus; mackerel scad; mackerel shad (small silvery fish; Nova Scotia to Brazil)

cigarfish; Decapterus punctatus; quiaquia; round scad (small fusiform fish of western Atlantic)

Holonyms ("scad" is a member of...):

Carangidae; family Carangidae (large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas)

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