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Definition of Spanish mackerel

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

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

3. Noun. Medium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.

4. Noun. A California food fish.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spanish Mackerel

Spanish elm Spanish fever Spanish flu Spanish fly Spanish garlic Spanish gorse Spanish green Spanish grunt Spanish guitar Spanish ham

Spanish heath Spanish influenza Spanish iris Spanish lime Spanish lime tree Spanish mackerel (current term) Spanish monetary unit Spanish moss Spanish oak Spanish omelet

Spanish omelets Spanish omelette Spanish omelettes Spanish onion Spanish oyster plant Spanish paprika Spanish people Spanish peseta Spanish pointer Spanish practices

Literary usage of Spanish mackerel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"A favorite game-fish in the south, the Spanish mackerel is commercially of ... Several fish found in southern waters are known as Spanish mackerel, ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1881)
"It is true that the Scomber colius formerly monopolized the term Spanish mackerel, for it was then in market and sold in considerable quantities. ..."

3. Foods and Their Adulteration: Origin, Manufacture, and Composition of Food by Harvey Washington Wiley (1907)
"Spanish mackerel.—-This is a very highly prized fish and is eaten largely in the ... In early years the Spanish mackerel was scarcely known on our coast, ..."

4. Foods and Their Adulteration: Origin, Manufacture, and Composition of Food by Harvey Washington Wiley (1911)
"Spanish mackerel.—This is a very highly prized fish and is eaten largely in the ... In early years the Spanish mackerel was scarcely known on our coast, ..."

5. Foods and Their Adulteration: Origin, Manufacture, and Composition of Food by Harvey Washington Wiley (1907)
"Spanish mackerel.—This is a very highly prized fish and is eaten largely in the ... In early years the Spanish mackerel was scarcely known on our coast, ..."

6. Foods and Their Adulteration: Origin, Manufacture, and Composition of Food by Harvey Washington Wiley (1907)
"Spanish mackerel.—This is a very highly prized fish and is eaten largely in the ... In early years the Spanish mackerel was scarcely known on our coast, ..."

7. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1881)
"THE Spanish mackerel, AND ITS ARTIFICIAL PROPAGATION. ... But the vernacular still has a use for the name,— Spanish mackerel, having transferred it to the ..."

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