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shads

noun

Meaning

  1. 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.
  2. The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).

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  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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