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twaite shad

Meaning of "twaite shad" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TWAITE SHAD

tweɪt ʃæd


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TWAITE SHAD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Twaite shad is a noun.
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WHAT DOES TWAITE SHAD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Twait Shad

The twait shad or twaite shad is a species of fish in the Clupeidae family. It is an anadromous fish which lives in the sea but migrates into fresh water to spawn.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TWAITE SHAD

chad · Ershad · shad

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TWAITE SHAD

twa · twaddle · twaddler · twaddly · twae · twain · twal · twalpenny · twang · twanger · twangingly · twangle · twangler · twangy · twank · twankay · twat · twattle · twattler · twayblade

WORDS THAT END LIKE TWAITE SHAD

allis shad · Almohad · Galahad · had · jehad · jihad · Lake Chad · lymphad · Mashhad · Parishad · Sir Galahad · Tchad · Upanishad · zila parishad

Synonyms and antonyms of twaite shad in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «twaite shad» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TWAITE SHAD

Find out the translation of twaite shad to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of twaite shad from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «twaite shad» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

twaite鲥鱼
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

saboga
570 millions of speakers
en

English

twaite shad
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

twaite शाद
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

شاد twaite
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

финта
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

savelha
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

দ্বৈত শ্যাডো
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

alose feinte
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Twaite shad
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Finte
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

twaiteシャッド
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

twaite 새드
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Twaite shad
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

shad twaite
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

நீளமான நிழல்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

Twaite shad
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Iki tonlu gölgeli
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

agone
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

twaite Shad
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

фінту
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

shad twaite
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

twaite shad
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

fint
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

twaite shad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

twaite shad
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TWAITE SHAD»

Discover the use of twaite shad in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to twaite shad and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Conservation Of Endangered Freshwater Fish In Europe
Stow net and ring net catches from 1989 to 1994 were analysed and compared to previous catch data in order to evaluate the current status of the twaite shad Elbe population. No significant differences were found between mean total ...
Arthur Kirchhofer, Daniel Hefti, 1996
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Fish and Diadromy in Europe (ecology, management, ...
Status within the Special Areas of Conservation Both Allis and Twaite shad were collected and examined from the four Rivers Slaney, Barrow–Nore, Suir and Munster Blackwater in the period 2000– 2005 and from Waterford Harbour, the ...
Sylvie Dufour, Etienne Prevost, Eric Rochard, 2008
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Progress in Marine Conservation in Europe: NATURA 2000 Sites ...
In contrast, the subspecies A. fallax fallax of twaite shad is distributed in the Baltic Sea and along the entire Atlantic sea coast, including the North Sea (e.g., Saemundsson 1949, Kartas 1981,Taverny 1991, Sabatie 1 993, Aprahamian et al.
Henning von Nordheim, Dieter Boedeker, Jochen C. Krause, 2006
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Environmental History of the Rhine-Meuse Delta: An ...
catches of the allis shad were rather important, but the twaite shad has gained some significance concurrently with the disappearance of allis shad. 8.3.3.1 Allis Shad Before 1910 adult allis shad was commonly caught by the Delta Rhine ...
P. H. Nienhuis, 2008
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Fishes in Estuaries
The twaite shad spawns in freshwater, but approximately one month later than the allis shad and in the lower reaches of the rivers, up to 100–120·km from the mouth. The males become sexually mature at 2–3 years old, the females at 4–5 ...
M. Elliott, Krystal L. Hemingway, 2008
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Rivers of Europe
The two Mullets benefited from rehabilitation measures for twaite shad to pass upstream of the Vallabr egues hydropower station and have been found upstream as far as Avignon. The thin-lipped grey mullet (L. ramada) is most abundant.
Klement Tockner, Urs Uehlinger, Christopher T. Robinson, 2009
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Conservation Monitoring in Freshwater Habitats: A Practical ...
The allis shad (Alosa alosa L.) and twaite shad (Alosa fallax L.) are the only members of the herring family found in freshwater habitats in the UK (Maitland and Hatton-Ellis 2003). They are similar in appearance but can be identified to species ...
Clive Hurford, Michael Schneider, Ian G. Cowx, 2009
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Welsh Wildlife
Twaite Shad (Alosa alosa) Smaller than Alosa fallax, the Twaite Shad usually attains a length of 35 cm. It is similar in colouration to the Allis Shad, except the belly tends to be yellowish-silver and it has 4 to 8 black spots behind the gill covers.
David Jones, 2003
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Ecological Restoration of Aquatic and Semi-Aquatic ...
Due to the construction of large flood defence works (Delta works), juvenile fish of both allis and twaite shad can no longer thrive throughout the year in the lower river reaches, because the complex system of vertical migration combined with ...
P.H. Nienhuis, Ramesh D. Gulati, 2002
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International Fish Screening Techniques:
The hearing thresholds of larval and juvenile twaite shad are not however currently known. This report describes a series of trials undertaken to determine the potential for ultrasonic behavioural deterrents to prevent the entrainment of ...
A.W.H. Turnpenny, R.A. Horsfield, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TWAITE SHAD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term twaite shad is used in the context of the following news items.
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Brazil is racing to clean up the alarmingly polluted bay that will host …
Thousands of twaite shad fish died in the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon in Rio in April. 1 / 6. More fish in the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon, where rowing events will ... «Business Insider Australia, Jul 15»
2
400-million-year-old river monster among 'secret seven' rarest fish in …
They are the lamprey, Arctic charr, vendace, spined loach, twaite shad, allis shad, and smelt. After years of decline because of poor water and the impacts of ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
Brazil Pulls 50 Tons of Dead Fish From Olympic Waters
Other scientists say the shortage of oxygen killing off the fish, from a small species called twaite shad, is caused by sewage and chemicals that end up in the ... «Newser, Apr 15»
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37 Tons of dead fish removed from Olympic lake in Brazil
Employees of the Comlurb municipal waste management company were continuing to use nets to remove the silvery fish, called twaite shad, many thousands of ... «Fox News Latino, Apr 15»
5
Olympic lake in Brazil has a dead fish problem
The latest incident, affecting thousands of small silvery fish called twaite shad, began several days ago at the Rodrigo de Freitas lake, where the Olympic ... «CBS News, Apr 15»
6
British Olympic sailors concerned with Rio 2016 pollution
Recently, thousands of dead twaite shad have been found floating in the waters of Guanabara Bay. The eight million residents of the 15 cities that share the ... «SurferToday, Mar 15»
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Thousands of dead fish found in Rio Olympic sailing venue
In the latest problem for the sailing venue for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, thousands of dead twaite shad have been found floating in the waters ... «Washington Post, Feb 15»
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Rio Officials Probe Source of Fish Die-Off in Olympic Waters
The dead twaite shad, small whitish gray fish, were discovered Tuesday by inspectors conducting routine water testing in Rio's sewage- and trash-filled ... «New York Times, Feb 15»
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Frozen in time: rare fish traces roots to ice age
This fish is a dwarf version of a related species, the twaite shad, and can grow to just 22cm. A member of the herring family, the goureen is only found in Lough ... «Irish Independent, Aug 13»
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At Anchor Off Lithuania, Its Own Energy Supply
... the nesting grounds and to the migration patterns of fish like the twaite shad, which spawns in the freshwater lagoon running along the eastern side of the spit. «New York Times, Jul 13»
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