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CAVALLA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cavalla mean?
• CAVALLA (noun)
The noun CAVALLA has 1 sense:
1. large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to Brazil
Familiarity information: CAVALLA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to Brazil
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
cavalla; cero; king mackerel; Scomberomorus cavalla
Hypernyms ("cavalla" is a kind of...):
Spanish mackerel (any of several large marine food fishes of the genus Scomberomorus)
Holonyms ("cavalla" is a member of...):
genus Scomberomorus; Scomberomorus (Spanish mackerels)
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