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SCOMBER COLIAS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Medium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico

Synonyms:

Scomber colias; Spanish mackerel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Scomber colias" is a kind of...):

mackerel (any of various fishes of the family Scombridae)

Meronyms (parts of "Scomber colias"):

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

Holonyms ("Scomber colias" is a member of...):

genus Scomber; Scomber (type genus of the Scombridae)

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