Word: sapidissima
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...fish book (joining Mark Kurlansky's best-selling Cod, among others). Its subject, the relatively unsung American shad, is a large and feisty fish found mostly in rivers in the northeastern U.S. It is the shad's misfortune to be excessively tasty--its scientific name is Alosa sapidissima, the latter word meaning "most savory." It is also notoriously bony: a Native American legend has the shad being created from a porcupine turned inside...
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