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shads

shads is the plural of shad.

Meaning of shad

Noun

shad (plural shad or shads)

  1. 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.
    • Each river had its village and its iron bridge that the train crossed with a blast of its whistle, and the girls bathing in the icy water leaped like shad as it passed, unsettling travelers with their fleeting breasts.2003, Gabriel García Márquez, chapter 1, in Edith Grossman, transl., Living to Tell the Tale
  2. (South Africa) Any bluefish of the species Pomatomus saltatrix.

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Proper noun capitalized: Shads

Shads

  1. (plural) plural of Shad

Phrases with shads

Questions about shads

What is shads the plural of?
Shads is the plural of shad.
What part of speech is shads?
Shads is a proper noun.

Words near shads in the dictionary

  1. shadowzones
  2. Shadrach
  3. Shadrachs
  4. Shadrick
  5. Shadricks
  6. shads
  7. shadscale
  8. shadscales
  9. shaduf
  10. shadufs
  11. Shadwell

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