Dorosoma

noun

Dor·​o·​so·​ma

ˌdȯrəˈsōmə

: a genus (sometimes the type of the family Dorosomidae or Dorosomatidae) of fishes that includes the gizzard shad and is now usually placed among the Clupeidae

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from doro- (from Greek dory wood, trunk of a tree, spear) + -soma

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