horse mackerel

horse mackerel

n.1. Any of various edible carangid fishes of the genus Trachurus, especially T. trachurus of eastern Atlantic waters.2. Any of several tunas or related fishes.

horse mackerel

n 1. (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. (Animals) any of various large tunnies or related fishes

blue′fin tu′na

(ˈbluˌfɪn)
n. a large tuna, Thunnus thynnus, common in temperate seas. [1920–25]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	horse mackerel - largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropicsThunnus thynnus, bluefin, bluefin tunagenus Thunnus, Thunnus - tunas: warm-blooded fishestunny, tuna - any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm watersbluefin, bluefin tuna - flesh of very large tuna
	2.	horse mackerel - large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europesaurel, Trachurus trachurusscad - any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae
	3.	horse mackerel - a California food fish jack mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus, saurel, Spanish mackerelscad - any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae