scad

/skæd/

Other forms: scads

Definitions of scad

1. noun

   any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae
   types:

   Spanish mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus, horse mackerel, jack mackerel, saurel

   a California food fish

   Trachurus trachurus, horse mackerel, saurel

   large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe

   Selar crumenophthalmus, big-eyed scad, bigeye scad, goggle-eye

   of Atlantic coastal waters; commonly used for bait

   Decapterus macarellus, mackerel scad, mackerel shad

   small silvery fish; Nova Scotia to Brazil

   Decapterus punctatus, cigarfish, quiaquia, round scad

   small fusiform fish of western Atlantic

   type of:

   carangid, carangid fish

   a percoid fish of the family Carangidae