MACKEREL SCAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mackerel scad mean? 

• MACKEREL SCAD (noun)
  The noun MACKEREL SCAD has 1 sense:

1. small silvery fish; Nova Scotia to Brazil

  Familiarity information: MACKEREL SCAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MACKEREL SCAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small silvery fish; Nova Scotia to Brazil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Decapterus macarellus; mackerel scad; mackerel shad

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

scad (any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae)

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

Decapterus; genus Decapterus (scads especially mackerel scad; cosmopolitan in distribution)