common mackerel

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
Syn: ↑shiner, ↑Scomber scombrus
Hypernyms: ↑mackerel
Member Holonyms: ↑Scomber, ↑genus Scomber
Part Meronyms: ↑mackerel

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