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horse mackerel

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horse mackerel
n.
1. See saurel.
2. Any of several tunas or related fishes.

horse mackerel
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) Also called scad a mackerel-like carangid fish, Trachurus of European Atlantic waters, with a row of bony scales along the lateral line Sometimes called (US) saurel
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various large tunnies or related fishes
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Noun1.horse mackerel - largest tunahorse mackerel - largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics
genus Thunnus, Thunnus - tunas: warm-blooded fishes
tunny, tuna - any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters
bluefin, bluefin tuna - flesh of very large tuna
2.horse mackerel - large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europehorse mackerel - large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe
scad - any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae
3.horse mackerel - a California food fishhorse mackerel - a California food fish              
scad - any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae


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