Anadromous: alternatives and connections

shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus

European shad

The European shad (Clupea vulgaris); allice shad. See Alose.

The European shad (Clupea alosa); -- called also allice shad or allis shad. The name is sometimes applied to the American shad (Clupea…

Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied.

A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…

In England, a large salmon trout of several species, as Salmo trutta and S. Cambricus, which ascend rivers; -- called also sea trout.

Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to the sea, as the salmon; anadromous.

A genus of ganoid fishes, of the order Dipnoi, first known as Mesozoic fossil fishes; but recently two living species have been discov…

See Shad.

An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and…

Falling off, or subject to fall or be shed, at a certain season, or a certain stage or interval of growth, as leaves (except of evergr…

Belonging to that space of time in which the moon performs one revolution, from ascending node to ascending node. See Dragon's head, u…

Belonging to rivers or streams; existing in or about rivers; produced by river action; fluvial; as, fluviatile starta, plants.

Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. See under Breeding.

The shrub or tree which bears this fruit; -- also called shad bush, and had tree.

A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good whe…

An order of fishes in which the fin rays, except the anterior ray of the pectoral and dorsal fins, are closely jointed, and not spiny.…