Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun horse_mackerel

3 senses of horse mackerel

Sense 1
bluefin, bluefin tuna, horse mackerel, Thunnus thynnus -- (largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics)
       => tuna, tunny -- (any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters)

Sense 2
horse mackerel, saurel, Trachurus trachurus -- (large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe)
       => scad -- (any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae)

Sense 3
horse mackerel, jack mackerel, Spanish mackerel, saurel, Trachurus symmetricus -- (a California food fish)
       => scad -- (any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae)