Definition of shad Shad

/ʃæˈd/ - [shatd] - shad

We found 6 definitions of shad from 5 different sources.

What does shad mean?

Noun Plural: shads
shad - herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn
		clupeid, clupeid fish any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas
		food fish any fish used for food by human beings
		alosa, genus alosa shad
		alosa sapidissima, common american shad shad of Atlantic coast of North America; naturalized to Pacific coast
		alosa chrysocloris, river shad shad that spawns in streams of the Mississippi drainage; very similar to Alosa sapidissima
shad - bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning; especially of Atlantic coast
		fish any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills; "the shark is a large fish"; "in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish"

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shad (n. sing. & pl.)
Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (Clupea sapidissima), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. (C. finta), are less important species.

shad
shad, n. a fish of the herring kind, but having the upper jaw deeply notched, and ascending rivers to spawn.—adj. Shad′-bell′ied, flat-bellied—opp. to Pot-bellied: sloping away gradually in front, cut away.—ns. Shad′-bird, the common American snipe: the sandpiper; Shad′-bush, the June-berry or service-berry; Shad′-fly, a May-fly; Shad′-frog, a large and very agile American frog; Shad′-wait′er, the pilot-fish or round-fish. [A.S. sceadda.]

shad
The Clupea alosa, a well-known fish, of very disputed culinary merit, owing perhaps to its own dietetic habits.

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