Shad

Definitions

1. 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.
2. A surname.
3. Any bluefish of the species Pomatomus saltatrix.
   South-Africa

Equivalents

Examples

“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 travelers with their fleeting breasts.”

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