Etymology

escolar

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Today it means: Any member of the species Lepidocybium flavobrunneum of snake mackerels. Full definition →

Spanish escolar
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  1. Spanish · borrowed fromescolar
  2. English todayescolar

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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