mackerel
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈmækərəl/
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- For dinner, we grilled some delicious mackerel with lemon and herbs.
- king mackerel
- Spanish mackerel
- Pacific mackerel
Now, the foods number one is mackerel.
- Now, the foods number one is mackerel.
- Oily fish are fish such as tuna, not tin tuna, though fresh tuna, salmon, mackerel.
- So things like mackerel and salmon and herring and oysters and sardines and anchovies, and perhaps the heavyweight champion of EPA's per unit volume is caviar.
- But a wild salmon, a wild trout, mackerel, sardines, anchovies.
Examples
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Florida's east coast also supports intensive year-round king mackerel fishing, unlike certain areas in the Gulf.
Academic text (1994) -
Frank Lucas couldn't get enough of catching mackerel, and a greedy part of himself wouldn't allow us to release any.
Fiction book (1996) -
The female could bring him a mackerel burger.
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As l was saying, a little snack for her might be, oh, 50 pounds of mackerel.
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Hello, children, wouldn't you like some fresh mackerel?
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The mackerel were perfect.
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We caught a good many perch, buttermouth, and mackerel that day.
Fiction book (2000) -
You're partial to a nice bit of mackerel, aren't you, STEVE?
Fiction book (1994) -
The recreational fishery for king mackerel grew in importance as the commercial fishery thrived.
Academic text (1994) -
So things like mackerel and salmon and herring and oysters and sardines and anchovies, and perhaps the heavyweight champion of EPA's per unit volume is caviar.
Synonyms
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6.1
A large fish with a long pointed nose eaten as food and often caught for sport
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6.2
A small fish found in oceans around the world that people often eat grilled or canned
A group of mackerel fish that includes species often eaten for food
A group of mackerel species found in temperate and tropical seas
A fish with a green-blue back and dark stripes that lives in northern Atlantic waters and is eaten
A mackerel found in the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean with a greenish-blue body and dark bars eaten as food
A small fish like a mackerel that lives in warm and mild seas, especially the Pacific Ocean
A type of sea fish like Spanish mackerel that people eat
A large spotted mackerel from the Atlantic coast of North America used for food
A large sea fish with a long pointed nose that people eat and catch for sport
A large mackerel-like fish with a long pointed snout eaten and caught for sport along the Atlantic coast
A large mackerel from warm Atlantic coastal waters of the United States that people eat
Idioms
Give something small to get something much bigger later
- Informal
Have a very strong smell like old fish or seem clearly suspicious
Compounds
- Specialized
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6.1
A large fish with a long pointed nose eaten as food and often caught for sport
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6.2
A small fish found in oceans around the world that people often eat grilled or canned
A fish with a green-blue back and dark stripes that lives in northern Atlantic waters and is eaten
- Specialized
A large, fast shark with a pointed snout that swims and hunts in open ocean
- Specialized
A small silvery fish that lives along the western Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to Brazil
A small silvery fish found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans often eaten as food
How Oily
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word mackerel comes from an old French word maquerel. One popular story says that French word was also used for a 'pimp' because fishermen used the small fish to 'attract' larger fish, so the name helps you remember a fish that often draws others in.