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escolar

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

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noun escolars

Any member of the species Lepidocybium flavobrunneum of snake mackerels. 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.
Any fish of species Ruvettus pretiosus, oilfish.
Any of several other perciform fish of the family Gempylidae (snake mackerels).
Similar: snake mackerel, walu, waloo, butterfish, super white tuna, white tuna, ex-lax fish, laxative of the sea

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noun Perciform fish

中文	蛇鯖 /蛇鲭 shéqíng, 鱗鯖 /鳞鲭 línqíng
Français	escolier
Deutsch	Escolar

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@misc{escolar_2026,
  title = {escolar},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/escolar},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}