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‖ Scomber|ˈskɒmbə(r)|
Pl. Scombri |ˈskɒmbraɪ|.
[L. scomber, ad. Gr. σκόµβρος tunny or mackerel.]
A mackerel. In mod. use only as the L. name of the genus.
1623J. Webster in Cockeram To Author, Thy leaues shall scape the Scombri, and be read. 1772–84Cook's Voy. (1790) I. 217 Oysters of different sorts, cavalhe or scomber, flat fish. 1854Badham Halieut. 193 Here, accordingly, the thunny fishery is exclusively carried on, nor was one of these scombers, he says, ever known to visit the opposite shore of Chalcedon. |