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plural shad or shads
Any one of several species of food fishes that make up the genus Alosa in the family Clupeidae, to which the herrings also belong; river herring. quotations examples
Each river had its village and its iron bridge that the train crossed with a blast of its whistle, and the girls bathing in the icy water leaped like shad as it passed, unsettling travelers with their fleeting breasts.
2003, Gabriel García Márquez, chapter 1, in Edith Grossman, transl., Living to Tell the Tale
(South Africa) Any bluefish of species Pomatomus saltatrix. examples