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nounbony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning; especially of Atlantic coasttype of:part of:
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nounherring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawntype of:
Definition that contains shad
- shadow shade within clear boundaries
- hatch shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
- hatched shaded by means of fine parallel or crossed lines
- hatching shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
- crosshatch shade with multiple crossing lines
- crosshatch shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
- common american shad shad of Atlantic coast of North America; naturalized to Pacific coast
- alosa pseudoharengus shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus
- alosa shad
- alosa chrysocloris shad that spawns in streams of the Mississippi drainage; very similar to Alosa sapidissima