Definition of Mackerel scad

1. Noun. Small silvery fish; Nova Scotia to Brazil.

Exact synonyms: Decapterus Macarellus, Mackerel Shad
Generic synonyms: Scad
Group relationships: Decapterus, Genus Decapterus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mackerel Scad

macies
macilency
macilent
macing
macintosh
macintoshes
mack
mack daddies
mack daddy
mackayite
mackayites
macked
mackerel
mackerel bird
mackerel birds
mackerel scad (current term)
mackerel shad
mackerel shark
mackerel sharks
mackerel sky
mackereler
mackerelers
mackerels
mackinaw
mackinaw boat
mackinaw boats
mackinaw coat
mackinaw coats
mackinaw jacket
mackinaw jackets

Literary usage of Mackerel scad

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

1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"Another species is the common mackerel scad, D. macarellus, which is found in the warmer parts of the Atlantic. It strays northward on our coast to Cape Cod ..."

2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... for creasing the sides of lean mackerel to make them resemble fish of the first quality. Also called fatting-knife. mackerel-scad (mak'e-rel-skad), n. ..."

3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"The name is also applied to species of other genera of the family, especially to a small similar fish, the mackerel-scad (Decapterus punctatus), ..."

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