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Meaning of HORSE MACKEREL

Pronunciation:  hors 'makurul

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a California food fish
  2. [n]  large elongated compressed food fish of European Atlantic waters
  3. [n]  largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics
 
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 Synonyms: bluefin, bluefin tuna, jack mackerel, saurel, Spanish mackerel, Thunnus thynnus, Trachurus symmetricus, Trachurus trachurus
 
 See Also: genus Thunnus, scad, Thunnus, tuna, tunny

 

 

 

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