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Spanish mackerel

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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.

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
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Noun1.Spanish mackerelSpanish 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
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 mackerelSpanish mackerel - a California food fish              
scad - any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae


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