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

Derived forms: Spanish mackerel

Type of: mackerel, scad

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

Encyclopedia: Spanish mackerel