spanish mackerel

Questions about spanish mackerel

What does spanish mackerel mean?

spanish mackerel means "flesh of commercially important fishes especially of the Atlantic coastal waters of America". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for spanish mackerel?

Close synonyms include Scomber colias, horse mackerel, jack mackerel, saurel, Trachurus symmetricus. 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 spanish mackerel a common word?

spanish mackerel is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.