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Definition of Genus alosa
1. Noun. Shad.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Clupeidae, Family Clupeidae
Member holonyms: Shad, Alewife, Alosa Pseudoharengus, Pomolobus Pseudoharengus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Alosa
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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