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Scad

Scad Meaning & Definition
Scad Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Scad?

[n] any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae

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See Also | bigeye scad | big-eyed scad | carangid | carangid fish | Carangidae | cigarfish | Decapterus macarellus | Decapterus punctatus | family Carangidae | goggle-eye | horse mackerel | jack mackerel | mackerel scad | mackerel shad | quiaquia | round scad | saurel | Selar crumenophthalmus | Spanish mackerel | Trachurus symmetricus | Trachurus trachurus

Scad In Webster's Dictionary

\Scad\, n. [Gael. & Ir. sgadan a herring.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) A small carangoid fish ({Trachurus saurus}) abundant on the European coast, and less common on the American. The name is applied also to several allied species. (b) The goggler; -- called also {big-eyed scad}. See {Goggler}. (c) The friar skate. [Scot.] (d) The cigar fish, or round robin.

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