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scad ¹  (skd)

n. pl. scad or scads

Any of several carangid fishes of the genus Decapterus, especially D. punctatus of the western Atlantic.

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scad ²  (skd)

n. Informal

A large number or amount. Often used in the plural: Scads of people are in the hall.

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scad [skæd]

n pl scad, scads

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various carangid fishes of the genus Trachurus, esp the horse mackerel

[of uncertain origin; compare Swedish skädde flounder]

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scad - any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae Carangidae, family Carangidae - large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas carangid, carangid fish - a percoid fish of the family Carangidae jack mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus, saurel, horse mackerel, Spanish mackerel - a California food fish saurel, Trachurus trachurus, horse mackerel - large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe big-eyed scad, bigeye scad, goggle-eye, Selar crumenophthalmus - of Atlantic coastal waters; commonly used for bait Decapterus macarellus, mackerel scad, mackerel shad - small silvery fish; Nova Scotia to Brazil cigarfish, Decapterus punctatus, quiaquia, round scad - small fusiform fish of western Atlantic