horse mackerel
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How to use horse mackerel in a sentence
The horse mackerel (Caranx trachurus) is found principally in the same parts, where it devours the fry of other fishes.
The Sea Shore | William S. FurneauxThe bonito is like a large horse mackerel, and is fished for in the same manner as the albicore.
Fishing in British Columbia | Thomas Wilson LambertHorse-mackerel are found singly on the coast all the year round, but sometimes they congregate in shoals of many thousands.
Dog fish, too, are sometimes taken; as are conger eels, and horse mackerel.
For Name and Fame | G. A. HentyMost striking, perhaps, would be the giant horse-mackerel, which were often seen.
Motor Matt's Race | Stanley R. Matthews
British Dictionary definitions for horse mackerel
Also called: scad a mackerel-like carangid fish, Trachurus of European Atlantic waters, with a row of bony scales along the lateral line: Sometimes called (US): saurel
any of various large tunnies or related fishes
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