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HORSE MACKEREL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A California food fish
Synonyms:
horse mackerel; jack mackerel; saurel; Spanish mackerel; Trachurus symmetricus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("horse mackerel" is a kind of...):
scad (any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe
Synonyms:
horse mackerel; saurel; Trachurus trachurus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("horse mackerel" is a kind of...):
scad (any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics
Synonyms:
bluefin; bluefin tuna; horse mackerel; Thunnus thynnus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("horse mackerel" is a kind of...):
tuna; tunny (any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters)
Meronyms (parts of "horse mackerel"):
bluefin; bluefin tuna (flesh of very large tuna)
Holonyms ("horse mackerel" is a member of...):
genus Thunnus; Thunnus (tunas: warm-blooded fishes)
