horse mackerel
1. largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics • Syn: bluefin, bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus • Hypernyms: tuna, tunny • Member Holonyms: Thunnus, genus Thunnus • Part Meronyms: bluefin, bluefin tuna 2. large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe • Syn: saurel, Trachurus trachurus • Hypernyms: scad 3. a California food fish • Syn: jack mackerel, Spanish mackerel, saurel, Trachurus symmetricus • Hypernyms: scad
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