mackerel : Idioms & Phrases

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Bull mackerel

  • (Zoöl.), the chub mackerel.
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Bull mackerel, Chub mackerel

  • . (Zoöl.) See under Chub.
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Chub mackerel

  • noun small mackerel found nearly worldwide
    tinker; Scomber japonicus.
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  • (Zoöl.), a species of mackerel (Scomber colias) in some years found in abundance on the Atlantic coast, but absent in others; called also bull mackerel, thimble-eye, and big-eye mackerel.
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common mackerel

  • noun important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales
    Scomber scombrus; shiner.
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Frigate mackerel

  • (Zoöl.), an oceanic fish (Auxis Rochei) of little or no value as food, often very abundant off the coast of the United States.
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Horse mackerel

  • noun largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics
    bluefin tuna; bluefin; Thunnus thynnus.
  • noun large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe
    saurel; Trachurus trachurus.
  • noun a California food fish
    jack mackerel; saurel; Trachurus symmetricus; horse mackerel.
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  • . See under Horse.
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jack mackerel

  • noun a California food fish
    jack mackerel; saurel; Trachurus symmetricus; horse mackerel.
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king mackerel

  • noun large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to Brazil
    cero; cavalla; Scomberomorus cavalla.
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Mackerel bird

  • (Zoöl.), the wryneck; so called because it arrives in England at the time when mackerel are in season.
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Mackerel cock

  • (Zoöl.), the Manx shearwater; so called because it precedes the appearance of the mackerel on the east coast of Ireland.
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Mackerel guide

  • . (Zoöl.) See Garfish (a).
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Mackerel gull

  • (Zoöl.) any one of several species of gull which feed upon or follow mackerel, as the kittiwake.
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Mackerel midge

  • (Zoöl.), a very small oceanic gadoid fish of the North Atlantic. It is about an inch and a half long and has four barbels on the upper jaw. It is now considered the young of the genus Onos, or Motella.
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Mackerel plow

  • an instrument for creasing the sides of lean mackerel to improve their appearance. Knight.
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mackerel scad

  • noun small silvery fish; Nova Scotia to Brazil
    mackerel scad; Decapterus macarellus.
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mackerel shad

  • noun small silvery fish; Nova Scotia to Brazil
    mackerel scad; Decapterus macarellus.
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Mackerel shark

  • noun fierce pelagic and oceanic sharks
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  • (Zoöl.), the porbeagle.
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mackerel sky

  • noun a sky filled with rows of cirrocumulus or small altocumulus clouds
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Mackerel sky, ∨ Mackerel-back sky

  • a sky flecked with small white clouds; a cirro-cumulus. See Cloud.
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Skip mackerel

  • . (Zoöl.) See Bluefish, 1.
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smoked mackerel

  • noun mackerel cured by smoking
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snake mackerel

  • noun predatory tropical fishes with jutting jaws and strong teeth
    Gempylus serpens.
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Spanish mackerel

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

  • (Zoöl.), the jurel.
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