shad
English Thesaurus
1. herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | food fish, |
| definition | : | any fish used for food by human beings (noun.animal) |
| hypernym | : | clupeid, clupeid fish, |
| definition | : | any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | alosa chrysocloris, river shad, |
| definition | : | shad that spawns in streams of the Mississippi drainage; very similar to Alosa sapidissima (noun.animal) |
2. bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning; especially of Atlantic coast (noun.food)
| hypernym | : | fish, |
| definition | : | the flesh of fish used as food (noun.food) |
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