different between gempylidae vs escolar

English

Etymology

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

Noun

escolar (plural escolars)

1. Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, 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 Ruvettus pretiosus, 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

References

• escolar at OneLook Dictionary Search
• escolar in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• escolar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gempylidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Gempylidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

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

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin schol?ris, from Latin schola.

Noun

escolar m or f (plural escolars)

1. student; specifically someone who goes to school

Adjective

escolar (masculine and feminine plural escolars)

1. scholar; school

Related terms

• escola

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin schol?ris, from Latin schola.

Adjective

escolar (plural escolares)

1. scholar; school

Noun

escolar m or f (plural escolares)

1. student, schoolchild, schoolboy, schoolgirl

Related terms

• escuela