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Noun: Spanish mackerel  'spa-nish ma-k(u-)rul
  1. A California food fish
    - horse mackerel, jack mackerel, saurel, Trachurus symmetricus
     
  2. Any of several large marine food fishes of the genus Scomberomorus
     
  3. Flesh of commercially important fishes especially of the Atlantic coastal waters of America
     
  4. Medium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
    - Scomber colias

Derived forms: Spanish mackerel

Type of: mackerel, scad

Part of: genus Scomber, genus Scomberomorus, Scomber, Scomberomorus

Encyclopedia: Spanish mackerel