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noun, plural (especially collectively) shad, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) shads.
1.
a deep-bodied herring, Alosa sapidissima, of Europe and North America, that migrates up streams to spawn, used for food.
2.
any other fish of the genus Alosa or related genera.
3.
any of several unrelated fishes.
Origin:
before 1050; Old English sceadd (not recorded in ME)
before 1050; Old English sceadd (not recorded in ME)
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shad
O.E. sceadd, possibly from Scand. (cf. Norw. dialectal skadd "small whitefish"); but cf. Welsh ysgadan (pl.), Ir., Gael. sgadan "herring." Low Ger. schade may be from Eng.
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