alose

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin alosa or alausa.

Noun

alose (plural aloses)

1. A fish, the European shad (Alosa alosa); the allice or allis.
2. The American shad ().

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Læsø, aloes, oleas

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French

alose (Alosa fallax

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Gaulish *alausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.loz/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: aloses

Noun

alose f (plural aloses)

1. shad (fishes of the herring family)

Further reading

• “alose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• aloès

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Italian

Noun

alose f

1. plural of alosa

Anagrams

• aleso, alesò
• asole
• esalo, esalò