alose — meaning in English
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English meaning
- shad noun A type of herring-like food fish that lives in the sea but spawns in rivers.
Senses
alose is used for these senses in English:
- allis shad A herring-like fish (Alosa alosa), of the eastern Atlantic that migrates to fresh water to spawn.
- shad 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.