OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 13707

shad

/ʃæd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
alosa • sábalo
Any one of several species of food fishes that make up the genus Alosa in the family Clupeidae, to which the herrings also belong; river herring.
Each river had its village and its iron bridge that the train crossed with a blast of its whistle, and the girls bathing in the icy water leaped like shad as it passed, unsettling…
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