Spanish mackerel

Spanish mackerel

n. Any of various marine food fishes of the genus Scomberomorus, especially the commercially important species S. maculatus of Atlantic coastal waters of North America.

Spanish mackerel

n 1. (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. (Animals) a mackerel, Scomber colias, of European and E North American coasts that is similar to the common Atlantic mackerel 3. (Animals) any of various related marine food fishes, esp Scomberomerus Commerson

Span′ish mack′erel

n. 1. any of various marine fishes, esp. of the genus Scomberomorus, as S. maculatus, of the Atlantic Ocean. 2. (in California) the jack mackerel. [1660–70, Amer.]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Spanish mackerel - flesh of commercially important fishes especially of the Atlantic coastal waters of AmericaScomber colias, Spanish mackerel - medium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of MexicoSpanish mackerel - any of several large marine food fishes of the genus Scomberomorusmackerel - 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 Scomberomorusmackerel - any of various fishes of the family Scombridaegenus Scomberomorus, Scomberomorus - Spanish mackerelscavalla, king mackerel, Scomberomorus cavalla, cero - large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to BrazilScomberomorus maculatus - a large commercially important mackerel of the Atlantic coastal waters of North Americacero, pintado, Scomberomorus regalis, kingfish - large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic watersScomberomorus sierra, sierra - a Spanish mackerel of western North AmericaSpanish 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 MexicoScomber coliasmackerel - any of various fishes of the family Scombridaegenus Scomber, Scomber - type genus of the ScombridaeSpanish mackerel - flesh of commercially important fishes especially of the Atlantic coastal waters of America
	4.	Spanish mackerel - a California food fish jack mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus, saurel, horse mackerelscad - any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae