Spanish mackerel

Spanish mackerel

n.

Any of various marine food fishes of the genus Scomberomorus, especially a commercially important species, S. maculatus, of American Atlantic coastal waters.

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Spanish mackerel

n

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) Also called kingfish any scombroid food fish of the genus Scomberomorus, esp S. maculatus, of American coastal regions of the Atlantic: family Scombridae (mackerels, tunnies, etc.)

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a mackerel, Scomber colias, of European and E North American coasts that is similar to the common Atlantic mackerel

3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various related marine food fishes, esp Scomberomerus Commerson

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Spanish mackerel - flesh of commercially important fishes especially of the Atlantic coastal waters of America Scomber colias, Spanish mackerel - medium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Spanish mackerel - any of several large marine food fishes of the genus Scomberomorus mackerel - flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fish
	2.	Spanish mackerel - any of several large marine food fishes of the genus Scomberomorus mackerel - any of various fishes of the family Scombridae genus Scomberomorus, Scomberomorus - Spanish mackerels cavalla, king mackerel, Scomberomorus cavalla, cero - large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to Brazil Scomberomorus maculatus - a large commercially important mackerel of the Atlantic coastal waters of North America cero, pintado, Scomberomorus regalis, kingfish - large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters Scomberomorus sierra, sierra - a Spanish mackerel of western North America Spanish mackerel - flesh of commercially important fishes especially of the Atlantic coastal waters of America
	3.	Spanish mackerel - medium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Scomber colias mackerel - any of various fishes of the family Scombridae genus Scomber, Scomber - type genus of the Scombridae Spanish mackerel - flesh of commercially important fishes especially of the Atlantic coastal waters of America
	4.	Spanish mackerel - a California food fish               jack mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus, saurel, horse mackerel scad - any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae