escolar

[ es-kuh-lahr ]

noun,plural (especially collectively) es·co·lar, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) es·co·lars.
  1. a snake mackerel, especially Lepidocybium flavobrunneum.

Origin of escolar

1
1885–90; <Spanish: literally, scholar; so called from the spectaclelike rings around the eyes

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escolar

/ (ˌɛskəˈlɑː) /


nounplural -lars or -lar
  1. any slender spiny-finned fish of the family Gempylidae, of warm and tropical seas: similar and closely related to the scombroid fishes: Also called: snake mackerel

Origin of escolar

1
from Spanish: scholar; so called from the rings round its eyes, suggestive of spectacles

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