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escolar

 
Dictionary: es·co·lar   (ĕs'kə-lär') pronunciation
 
n., pl. escolar or -lars.

Any of several slender fishes of the family Gempylidae, especially Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, of warm marine waters.

[Spanish, student (from the spectaclelike rings around its eyes), from Late Latin scholāris, of a school. See scholar.]


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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: large snake mackerel with rings like spectacles around its eyes
  Synonym: Lepidocybium flavobrunneum


 
 

 

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