escolar

[es-kuh-lahr]

es·co·lar

[es-kuh-lahr]
noun, plural (especially collectively) es·co·lar, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) es·co·lars.
a snake mackerel, especially Lepidocybium flavobrunneum.

Origin:
1885–90; < Spanish: literally, scholar; so called from the spectaclelike rings around the eyes
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Escolar is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
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escolar (ˌɛskəˈlɑː)
 
n , pl -lars, -lar
Also called: snake mackerel any slender spiny-finned fish of the family Gempylidae, of warm and tropical seas: similar and closely related to the scombroid fishes
 
[from Spanish: scholar; so called from the rings round its eyes, suggestive of spectacles]

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