escolar

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

Lepidocybium flavobrunneum

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).

• (perciform fish): snake mackerel, walu or waloo, butterfish, super white tuna, white tuna
• (perciform fish): (derogatory) ex-lax fish, laxative of the sea

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

From Late Latin scholāris, from Latin schola.

escolar m or f (plural escolars)

1. student; specifically someone who goes to school

escolar (masculine and feminine plural escolars)

1. scholar; school

• escola

From Late Latin scholāris, from Latin schola.

• Hyphenation: es‧co‧lar

escolar m or f (plural escolares)

1. (relational) scholar; school

   calendário escolar ― school calendar

   material escolar ― school supplies

• escola

• IPA^(key): /eskoˈlaɾ/ [es.koˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧co‧lar

From Late Latin scholāris, from Latin schola.

escolar (plural escolares)

1. scholar; school

escolar m or f (plural escolares)

1. student, schoolchild, schoolboy, schoolgirl

• escuela

From Latin excolāre, active infinitive of the verb excolō.

escolar (first-person singular present escuelo, first-person singular preterite escolé, past participle escolado)

1. to go through a narrow place

• “escolar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014