Scad

n.

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(Zool.) 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.

Noun

1.

scad - any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae

big-eyed scad, bigeye 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