SPANISH MACKEREL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Spanish mackerel mean? 

• SPANISH MACKEREL (noun)
  The noun SPANISH MACKEREL has 4 senses:

1. flesh of commercially important fishes especially of the Atlantic coastal waters of America

2. any of several large marine food fishes of the genus Scomberomorus

3. medium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico

4. a California food fish

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPANISH MACKEREL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flesh of commercially important fishes especially of the Atlantic coastal waters of America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

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

Holonyms ("Spanish mackerel" is a part of...):

Scomber colias; Spanish mackerel (medium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico)

Spanish mackerel (any of several large marine food fishes of the genus Scomberomorus)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several large marine food fishes of the genus Scomberomorus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

mackerel (any of various fishes of the family Scombridae)

Meronyms (parts of "Spanish mackerel"):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Spanish mackerel"):

cavalla; cero; king mackerel; Scomberomorus cavalla (large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to Brazil)

Scomberomorus maculatus (a large commercially important mackerel of the Atlantic coastal waters of North America)

cero; kingfish; pintado; Scomberomorus regalis (large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters)

Scomberomorus sierra; sierra (a Spanish mackerel of western North America)

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

genus Scomberomorus; Scomberomorus (Spanish mackerels)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Medium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Scomber colias; Spanish mackerel

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

mackerel (any of various fishes of the family Scombridae)

Meronyms (parts of "Spanish mackerel"):

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

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

genus Scomber; Scomber (type genus of the Scombridae)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A California food fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

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

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

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