common mackerel

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsshinerScomber scombrus

   Broadermackerel

   Part ofScomber

   Partsmackerel

Questions about common mackerel

What does common mackerel mean?

common mackerel means "important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales".

What is another word for common mackerel?

Close synonyms include shiner, Scomber scombrus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common mackerel a common word?

common mackerel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.