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mackerel shad
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mackerel shad has 1 sense
- mackerel shad(n = noun.animal) decapterus macarellus, mackerel scad - small silvery fish; Nova Scotia to Brazil; Array is a kind of scad
is a member of decapterus, genus decapterus
CIDE DICTIONARY
mackerel shad, n.
A small silvery fish (Decapterus macarellus ) found from Nova Scotia to Brazil. [WordNet 1.5]
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