COMMON MACKEREL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common mackerel mean? 

• COMMON MACKEREL (noun)
  The noun COMMON MACKEREL has 1 sense:

1. important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales

  Familiarity information: COMMON MACKEREL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMON MACKEREL (noun)

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Meaning:

Important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

common mackerel; Scomber scombrus; shiner

Hypernyms ("common mackerel" is a kind of...):

mackerel (any of various fishes of the family Scombridae)

Meronyms (parts of "common mackerel"):

mackerel (flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fish)

Holonyms ("common mackerel" is a member of...):

genus Scomber; Scomber (type genus of the Scombridae)