Dorosoma
noun
Dor·o·so·ma
ˌdȯrəˈsōmə
: a genus (sometimes the type of the family Dorosomidae or Dorosomatidae) of fishes that includes the gizzard shad and is now usually placed among the Clupeidae
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from doro- (from Greek dory wood, trunk of a tree, spear) + -soma