Spanish mackerel
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any member of the Scomberomorini, a tribe of mackerel.
"The war raged on for what seemed like hours between the old man weakened in his travels, and the fish, the long, narrow, silver body of a giant Spanish mackerel, spinning through the water with one of Norm Phantom’s lines hooked into its mouth."
- 2 a California food fish wordnet
- 3 medium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico wordnet
- 4 any of several large marine food fishes of the genus Scomberomorus wordnet
- 5 flesh of commercially important fishes especially of the Atlantic coastal waters of America wordnet
Example
More examples"The war raged on for what seemed like hours between the old man weakened in his travels, and the fish, the long, narrow, silver body of a giant Spanish mackerel, spinning through the water with one of Norm Phantom’s lines hooked into its mouth."