Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun shad

2 senses of shad

Sense 1
shad -- (bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning; especially of Atlantic coast)
       => fish -- (the flesh of fish used as food; "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"; "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat"; "they have a chef who specializes in fish")

Sense 2
shad -- (herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn)
       => clupeid fish, clupeid -- (any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas)
       => food fish -- (any fish used for food by human beings)