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ESCOLAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does escolar mean?
• ESCOLAR (noun)
The noun ESCOLAR has 1 sense:
1. large snake mackerel with rings like spectacles around its eyes
Familiarity information: ESCOLAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large snake mackerel with rings like spectacles around its eyes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
escolar; Lepidocybium flavobrunneum
Hypernyms ("escolar" is a kind of...):
gempylid (snake mackerels; elongated marine fishes with oily flesh; resembles mackerels; found worldwide)
Holonyms ("escolar" is a member of...):
genus Lepidocybium; Lepidocybium (a genus of Gempylidae)
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