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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fbharjo commented on the word decapterus
wholly mackerel!
July 2, 2011
fbharjo commented on the word decapterus
scads of scads?
July 2, 2011