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horse mackerel

DEFINITIONS OF: horse mackerel

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n a California food fish

Synonyms:
Spanish mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus, jack mackerel, saurel
Type of:
scad
any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae

n large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe

Synonyms:
Trachurus trachurus, saurel
Type of:
scad
any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae

n largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics

Synonyms:
Thunnus thynnus, bluefin, bluefin tuna
Type of:
tuna, tunny
any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters
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