scud

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The team looked at three types of freshwater animals -- two species of gammarid, or "scud," which is a small freshwater crustacean; one freshwater snail; and three aquatic insect species.

From Science Daily • Oct. 6, 2023

During the 1991 war, Iraq fired waves of scud missiles at its neighbor, including five at the Dimona nuclear reactor in the Negev desert, the heavily guarded heart of Israel’s never-acknowledged nuclear arms program.

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2022

Fleecy white clouds scud across a bright blue sky, providing enough intermittent shade to keep temperatures tolerable.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2020

The Patriot system thought the scud was far from the barracks and did not fire.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2019

The moonlight shines and billows; the broken clouds scud above the trees.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr