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MACKEREL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various fishes of the family Scombridae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("mackerel" is a kind of...):

scombroid; scombroid fish (important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mackerel"):

common mackerel; Scomber scombrus; shiner (important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales)

Scomber colias; Spanish mackerel (medium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico)

chub mackerel; Scomber japonicus; tinker (small mackerel found nearly worldwide)

Acanthocybium solandri; wahoo (large fast-moving predacious food and game fish; found worldwide)

Spanish mackerel (any of several large marine food fishes of the genus Scomberomorus)

Holonyms ("mackerel" is a member of...):

family Scombridae; Scombridae (marine food fishes: mackerels; chub mackerels; tuna)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("mackerel" is a kind of...):

saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mackerel"):

Spanish mackerel (flesh of commercially important fishes especially of the Atlantic coastal waters of America)

smoked mackerel (mackerel cured by smoking)

Holonyms ("mackerel" is a part of...):

common mackerel; Scomber scombrus; shiner (important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales)

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