alosa chrysocloris

1. 1.

   shad that spawns in streams of the Mississippi drainage; very similar to Alosa sapidissima

   Synonymsriver shad

   Broadershad

Questions about alosa chrysocloris

What does alosa chrysocloris mean?

alosa chrysocloris means "shad that spawns in streams of the Mississippi drainage; very similar to Alosa sapidissima".

What is another word for alosa chrysocloris?

Close synonyms include river shad. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alosa chrysocloris a common word?

alosa chrysocloris is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.