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    SCOMBER SCOMBRUS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scalesplay

    Synonyms:

    common mackerel; Scomber scombrus; shiner

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    Nouns denoting animals

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

    mackerel (any of various fishes of the family Scombridae)

    Meronyms (parts of "Scomber scombrus"):

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

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

    genus Scomber; Scomber (type genus of the Scombridae)

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