n. pl. escolar or es·co·lars Any of several slender marine fishes of the family Gempylidae, especially Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, a dark brown oily fish of tropical and temperate waters worldwide. [Spanish, student (from the spectaclelike rings around its eyes), from Late Latin scholāris, of a school; see SCHOLAR.] |
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