HORSE MACKEREL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horse mackerel mean? 

• HORSE MACKEREL (noun)
  The noun HORSE MACKEREL has 3 senses:

1. largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics

2. large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe

3. a California food fish

  Familiarity information: HORSE MACKEREL used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORSE MACKEREL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bluefin; bluefin tuna; horse mackerel; Thunnus thynnus

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

tuna; tunny (any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters)

Meronyms (parts of "horse mackerel"):

bluefin; bluefin tuna (flesh of very large tuna)

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

genus Thunnus; Thunnus (tunas: warm-blooded fishes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

horse mackerel; saurel; Trachurus trachurus

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

scad (any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A California food fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

horse mackerel; jack mackerel; saurel; Spanish mackerel; Trachurus symmetricus

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

scad (any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae)