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scad

DEFINITIONS OF: scad

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n any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae

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Spanish mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus, horse mackerel, jack mackerel, saurel
a California food fish
Trachurus trachurus, horse mackerel, saurel
large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe
Selar crumenophthalmus, big-eyed scad, bigeye scad, goggle-eye
of Atlantic coastal waters; commonly used for bait
Decapterus macarellus, mackerel scad, mackerel shad
small silvery fish; Nova Scotia to Brazil
Decapterus punctatus, cigarfish, quiaquia, round scad
small fusiform fish of western Atlantic
Type of:
carangid, carangid fish
a percoid fish of the family Carangidae
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