RIVER SHAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does river shad mean? 

• RIVER SHAD (noun)
  The noun RIVER SHAD has 1 sense:

1. shad that spawns in streams of the Mississippi drainage; very similar to Alosa sapidissima

  Familiarity information: RIVER SHAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIVER SHAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shad that spawns in streams of the Mississippi drainage; very similar to Alosa sapidissima

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Alosa chrysocloris; river shad

Hypernyms ("river shad" is a kind of...):

shad (herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn)