jack mackerel
- noun
- /dʒæk ˈmækərəl/
- US
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jurel
- For dinner, we enjoyed grilled jack mackerel served with lemon and herbs.
- anchovy and jack mackerel
- jack mackerel and bonito
- northern anchovy and jack mackerel
Examples
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Analysis of the time of sighting (day or night) indicates that the northern anchovy and jack mackerel are usually observed in greater numbers and more frequently at night.
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Sightings records (1963-88) for the Santa Barbara Channel and Islands areas indicate that the summer-to-winter period has a greater abundance of northern anchovy, jack mackerel, and Pacific bonito.
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The jack mackerel resource has a distribution of older adults generally offshore from which the younger year classes recruit into the southern California fishery.
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The jack mackerel tonnages decreased after the spill, but overall, increased slightly in 1969, then decreased in 1970 (Table 1).
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Information is given regarding total tonnage observed by month for Pacific bonito, northern anchovy, and jack mackerel (Table 1).
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Observations during the oil spill period indicated that schools of anchovy, bonito, and jack mackerel were in the normal geographical areas of distribution within the Santa Barbara Channel and Islands, and that their behavior below the oil slick was normal relative to depth, movement, and school shape.
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The geographical distribution of the sightings in the Santa Barbara Channel and about the Channel Islands of the northern anchovy, Pacific bonito, and jack mackerel for the periods 1966-69 and 1970-73 is given in Figures 3-5.
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The fishermen caught a large number of jack mackerel during their trip off the coast yesterday.
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Many restaurants in the area serve jack mackerel as a popular seafood option.
Synonyms
9
3.3
A sea fish with a long slim body that swims in large groups
1
9.9
A fish like a jack mackerel that lives in coastal waters
A fish found off the California coast that people eat
Surface Forms
Morphology
Both constituents 'jack' (in its fish sense) and 'mackerel' are names of fish, so a learner who knows those senses can infer this is a type/kind of fish; the compound meaning is compositional and denotes a species. Compound animal/food names of the form noun+noun are cross-linguistically common and therefore predictable to B1 learners, though learners who only know non-fish senses of 'jack' might be momentarily uncertain.
Etymology
Jack mackerel probably comes from fishermen calling a small, common fish a jack and adding mackerel because the fish looks like true mackerel, so the name means 'a small mackerel-like fish'.