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Spanish mackerel

noun

Flesh of commercially important fishes especially of the Atlantic coastal waters of America.

Any of several large marine food fishes of the genus Scomberomorus.

Medium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Synonym: Scomber colias.

A California food fish. Synonyms: horse mackerel, jack mackerel, saurel, Trachurus symmetricus.

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"Spanish mackerel" Quotes from Famous Books

... crossed the Caribbean Sea with a fine breeze, and one morning beheld the Rocas, a cluster of barren rocks, right ahead. We passed over a bank extending from this group of rocks, and with a fishing-line trailing astern and a piece of the rind of pork for bait, caught a quantity of Spanish mackerel, a fish of excellent flavor, weighing four or five ...

— Jack in the Forecastle • John Sherburne Sleeper

... mackerel is excellent with other fish sauces. Boiled Spanish mackerel is also very fine with most of the fish sauces, more especially "Matre ...

— The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) - The Whole Comprising A Comprehensive Cyclopedia Of Information For - The Home • Mrs. F.L. Gillette