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Definition of Mackerel scad
1. Noun. Small silvery fish; Nova Scotia to Brazil.
Generic synonyms: Scad
Group relationships: Decapterus, Genus Decapterus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mackerel Scad
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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