escolar

Meaning

Noun

• Lepidocybium flavobrunneum (species), one of the snake mackerels.
• Any fish of species Ruvettus pretiosus (species), oilfish.
• Any of several other perciform fish of the family Gempylidae (snake mackerels).

Related

Similar words

• snake mackerel, walu or waloo, butterfish, super white tuna, white tuna
• ex-lax fish, laxative of the sea

Origin

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