Definition of Genus Alosa

1. Noun. Shad.

Exact synonyms: Alosa
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Clupeidae, Family Clupeidae
Member holonyms: Shad, Alewife, Alosa Pseudoharengus, Pomolobus Pseudoharengus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Alosa

genus Aleyrodes
genus Algeripithecus
genus Alisma
genus Allamanda
genus Alliaria
genus Alligator
genus Allionia
genus Allium
genus Allosaurus
genus Alnus
genus Alocasia
genus Aloe
genus Alopecurus
genus Alopex
genus Alopius
genus Alosa (current term)
genus Alouatta
genus Alpinia
genus Alsobia
genus Alsophila
genus Alstonia
genus Alstroemeria
genus Alternanthera
genus Althaea
genus Alyssum
genus Alytes
genus Amanita
genus Amaranthus
genus Amaryllis
genus Amauropelta

Literary usage of Genus Alosa

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"In the genus Alosa the cheek region is very deep, giving the head a form different from that seen in the herring. The American shad is the best food-fish in ..."

2. An Authentic History of Lancaster County: In the State of Pennsylvania by Jacob Isidor Mombert (1869)
"... (the distinctive mark of the genus ALOSA,)but it differs in some respects from the ALOSA menhaden or moss-bunker, and is more like our Hickory shad, ..."

3. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1868)
"Consequently finta and alosa are synonymous, and the species with thin gill-rakers has no specific name (if the genus Alosa is not adopted). ..."

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