Spanish mackerel Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun flesh of commercially important fishes especially of the Atlantic coastal waters of America
  2. noun any of several large marine food fishes of the genus Scomberomorus
  3. noun medium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
    Scomber colias.
  4. noun a California food fish
    jack mackerel; saurel; Trachurus symmetricus; horse mackerel.

WordNet

Definitions
  1. . (Zoöl.) (a) A species of mackerel (Scomber colias) found both in Europe and America. In America called chub mackerel, big-eyed mackerel, and bull mackerel. (b) In the United States, a handsome mackerel having bright yellow round spots (Scomberomorus maculatus), highly esteemed as a food fish. The name is sometimes erroneously applied to other species. See Illust. under Mackerel.

Webster 1913