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Definition of Chub mackerel
1. Noun. Small mackerel found nearly worldwide.
Generic synonyms: Mackerel
Group relationships: Genus Scomber, Scomber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chub Mackerel
Literary usage of Chub mackerel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"The Easter, tinker, or chub mackerel is a closely related species, ... (a) The
chub mackerel. (W The common mackerel of next to the smallest of the four ..."
2. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"The history of the chub mackerel on our Atlantic Coast shows great variation in
abundance. Up to about 1840 it was apparently an abundant fish, ..."
3. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"Smaller, less important, less useful, but far more widely distributed is the
chub-mackerel, or thimble-eyed mackerel, Scomber japonicus (Houttuyn, 178^), ..."
4. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"... spotted fish which has been known to frequent our coast is the " chub mackerel "
or " thimble eye," a species closely allied to the common mackerel, ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"304) to be 'a variety of the mackerel,' and this remark was followed by comments
on its place in Roman estimation, on what was evidently the chub mackerel, ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"304) to be 'a variety of the mackerel,' and this remark was followed by comments
on its place in Roman estimation, on what was evidently the chub mackerel, ..."
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