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Definition of River shad
1. Noun. Shad that spawns in streams of the Mississippi drainage; very similar to Alosa sapidissima.
Lexicographical Neighbors of River Shad
Literary usage of River shad
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of the Department of Commerce and Labor 1904-1912: Report of the by Dept. of Commerce and Labor, United States (1912)
"From the following condensed statistics it appears that the Hudson river shad
fishery in 1910 yielded 228.254 shad, for which the fishermen received ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1858)
"Fond of Fish / and that fisti, a Shad! and that shad, a Connecticut-river shad!
and that Connecticut-river shad, a prime brace of shad! in the highest ..."
3. The Knickerbocker; Or, New York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1844)
"Fond of Fish ! and that fish, a Shad ! and that shad, a Connecticut river shad !
and that Connecticut river shad, a prime brace of shad ! in the highest ..."
4. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"Potomac River. shad of the Gulf of Mexico (Alosa ... the Ohio river shad (Alosa
ohiensis), very lately discovered, the Allice shad (Alosa alosa) of Europe, ..."
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