Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Agenus of mackerel-like fishes of the family Carangidæ, distinguished by the presence of the free finlet behind the dorsal and behind the anal.

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  • noun scads especially mackerel scad; cosmopolitan in distribution

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  • wholly mackerel!

    July 2, 2011

  • scads of scads?

    July 2, 2011