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KING MACKEREL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to Brazil
Synonyms:
cavalla; cero; king mackerel; Scomberomorus cavalla
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("king mackerel" is a kind of...):
Spanish mackerel (any of several large marine food fishes of the genus Scomberomorus)
Holonyms ("king mackerel" is a member of...):
genus Scomberomorus; Scomberomorus (Spanish mackerels)