alose
English
Noun
alose (plural aloses)
- A fish, the European shad (Alosa alosa); the allice or allis.
- The American shad (Alosa sapidissima).
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for alose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
French
alose (Alosa fallax
Etymology
From Gaulish *alausa
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [a.loz]
Audio (file) - Homophone: aloses
Further reading
- “alose” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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