twaite shad

English

Alternative forms

• twait shad

Noun

twaite shad (plural twaite shads)

1. A fish in the herring family Clupeidae, Alosa fallax, found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

Synonyms

• European shad
• twaite

Translations

Alosa fallax

• Asturian: xagüeta (ast), sabela (ast)
• Catalan: saboga (ca) f
• Finnish: täpläsilli (fi)
• Galician: sabela f, sabenlla f, zamborca (gl) f, sambogha f, colaque m, polaca f
• German: Finte (de) f
• Hungarian: finta (hu)
• Italian: cheppia (it) f
• Polish: parposz m
• Spanish: saboga f
• Swedish: staksill (sv) c
• Turkish: tirsi (tr)