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Spanish mackerel   /spˈænɪʃ mˈækərəl/   Listen
Spanish mackerel

noun
1.
Flesh of commercially important fishes especially of the Atlantic coastal waters of America.
2.
Any of several large marine food fishes of the genus Scomberomorus.
3.
Medium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.  Synonym: Scomber colias.
4.
A California food fish.  Synonyms: horse mackerel, jack mackerel, saurel, Trachurus symmetricus.





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"Spanish mackerel" Quotes from Famous Books



... crossed the Caribbean Sea with a fine breeze, and one morning beheld the Rocas, a cluster of barren rocks, right ahead. We passed over a bank extending from this group of rocks, and with a fishing-line trailing astern and a piece of the rind of pork for bait, caught a quantity of Spanish mackerel, a fish of excellent flavor, weighing four or five ...
— Jack in the Forecastle • John Sherburne Sleeper


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