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

The seaweed algae can tower hundreds of feet above the ocean floor, providing protection and nutrients for scud, sea otters, snails, rockfish, anemones, eels, crabs, jellyfish and other marine life.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 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

Although the U.S. military had deployed a Patriot defense system, it failed to fire and let the scud through.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2019

Below them a hook of land shrouded in the dark scud blowing down the shore and beyond that lying half over and awash the shape of a sailboat’s hull.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy