alosa — meaning in English

English meaning

• shad noun A type of herring-like food fish that lives in the sea but spawns in rivers.

Senses

alosa is used for these senses in English:

• allose (biochemistry) An epimer of glucose found in some African shrubs
• 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.

Related Spanish words