escolar

English

Etymology

From Spanish escolar, because of a resemblance of the rings around the eyes to a scholar's spectacles

Noun

escolar (plural escolars)

1. , one of the snake mackerels.
   • 2013 February 20, Helen Thomson, News Focus: Meat Scandal: What's On Your Plate?, New Scientist, Volume 217, Issue 2904, page 7,

     And Oceana's study revealed that 94 per cent of “white tuna” was not tuna at all, but escolar (Lepidocybium flavobrunneum). Consumption of more than 100 grams or so of this species causes severe diarrhoea.

2. Any fish of species , oilfish.
3. Any of several other perciform fish of the family Gempylidae (snake mackerels).

Synonyms

• (perciform fish): snake mackerel, walu or waloo, butterfish, super white tuna, white tuna
• (perciform fish): (derogatory) ex-lax fish, laxative of the sea

Translations

Perciform fish

• Bulgarian: деликатесна скумрия (delikatesna skumrija)
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References

• “escolar”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “escolar”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• escolar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gempylidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Gempylidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Alcoser, Caleros, Calrose, coalers, oracles, recoals, solacer

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Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin scholāris, from Latin schola.

Noun

escolar m or f (plural escolars)

1. student; specifically someone who goes to school

Adjective

escolar m or f (masculine and feminine plural escolars)

1. scholar; school

Related terms

• escola

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Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin scholāris, from Latin schola.

Adjective

escolar m or f (masculine and feminine plural escolares)

1. scholar; school

Adjective

escolar m or f (plural escolares)

1. student, schoolchild, schoolboy, schoolgirl

Related terms

• escuela