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Definition of Scomber
1. Noun. Type genus of the Scombridae.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Scombridae, Scombridae
Member holonyms: Common Mackerel, Scomber Scombrus, Shiner, Scomber Colias, Spanish Mackerel, Chub Mackerel, Scomber Japonicus, Tinker
Definition of Scomber
1. n. A genus of acanthopterygious fishes which includes the common mackerel.
Medical Definition of Scomber
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Scomber
Literary usage of Scomber
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Synopsis of the Fishes of North America by David Starr Jordan, Charles Henry Gilbert (1883)
"ilai ¡nes with tfi-th; corselet obsolete ............. scomber, 213. «se;. ...
1758: type scomber ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"Preliminary Note on the Races and Migrations of the Mackerel (scomber scomber).
By WALTER GARSTANG, MA, Naturalist in charge of Fishery Investigations under ..."
3. A History of British Fishes by William Yarrell (1841)
"Hist. Nat. tles Poiss. t. viii. p. 113, pi. 214. scomber , ... be also stated
that two distinct fishes have been included under the term Bonito (scomber ..."
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