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Definition of Common mackerel

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Mackerel

Literary usage of Common mackerel

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

1. Transactions by Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society (1851)
"The length was 15! inches, and the general proportions were those of the common mackerel. The more minute differences will be pointed out at the conclusion ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"So much is certain that the European mackerel are of two kinds, of which one, the common mackerel, Scomber scomber, lacks, while the other possesses, ..."

3. Fishing by Horace Gordon Hutchinson (1904)
"Looked upon by some authors as distinct species, these aberrant forms are now generally regarded as variations of the common mackerel, with which they occur ..."

4. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Sir David Brewster (1832)
"Account of the common mackerel, ('Scomber scombrus, Lin.) and the Garum of the Ancients. ... THE common Mackerel belongs to the tribe ..."

5. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"... allied to the common mackerel, but smaller, and distinguished by having larger eyes and less distinct dorsal markings, as well as by other characters. ..."

6. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"There is every reason to believe that these were the common mackerel and its approximating species. All that is said of them proves that they were common ..."

7. Sea fishing by John Bickerdyke, William Senior, Alfred Harmsworth Northcliffe (1895)
"It may be instantly known by the eye, which is twice or three times the size of a common mackerel's. The HORSE MACKEREL or SCAD is, according to naturalists ..."

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