scuds in English

noun
1
a formation of vapory clouds driven fast by the wind.
2
a type of long-range surface-to-surface guided missile able to be fired from a mobile launcher.
Because the Scud missile tended to breakup during the final phase of its trajectory (re-entry into the atmosphere), multiple targets would appear on the radar screen.
verb
1
move fast in a straight line because or as if driven by the wind.
we lie watching the clouds scudding across the sky
synonyms:speedracerushsailshootsweepskimwhipwhizflashflyscurryflitscutterscuttle
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1. Initial fears that the Scuds were carrying chemical warheads proved groundless.

2. Scuds (or side-swimmers) are freshwater invertebrates belonging to the order Amphipoda

3. Your standard Bighorn flies like Zebra midges, Orange Scuds/Sowbugs, crayfish, worms, and Baetis imitations View Report

4. Cave Amphipods, like the scuds that live aboveground, are important scavengers and prey species in their ecosystems.

5. Although of limited accuracy by modern standards, the Scuds were reasonably successful at hitting large targets such as urban settlements.

6. In my experience, the food sources are less dependent on weedbeds and I see fewer damsels, Caddises, or Callibaetis, and more scuds, baitfish, crayfish, and annelids

7. South Korea news agency said the missile were Scuds, which would mark an escalation by the reclusive North, which has fired several non-ballistic, short-range missile since the May 25 nuclear test.

8. You could describe scuds (members of the order Amphipoda) as “shrimplike sowbugs.” Like sowbugs (in the order Isopoda), they have two pairs of antennae; they lack a carapace (a covering “back” like a crayfish has); their eyes are not on stalks; and they have several body segments with legs, gills, and other appendages.

9. Amphipoda, commonly called scuds or sideswimmers (Figure 31.1), are diverse and common in both surface and subterranean freshwater habitats.With approximately 1900 described species (Väinölä et al., 2008), Amphipods constitute the most diverse and ubiquitous group of peracarids in freshwater.The majority of this diversity is in the Palearctic and Nearctic, including a remarkable endemic