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GENUS SCOMBEROMORUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Spanish mackerels

Synonyms:

genus Scomberomorus; Scomberomorus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Scomberomorus" is a kind of...):

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "genus Scomberomorus"):

Spanish mackerel (any of several large marine food fishes of the genus Scomberomorus)

cavalla; cero; king mackerel; Scomberomorus cavalla (large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to Brazil)

Scomberomorus maculatus (a large commercially important mackerel of the Atlantic coastal waters of North America)

cero; kingfish; pintado; Scomberomorus regalis (large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters)

Holonyms ("genus Scomberomorus" is a member of...):

family Scombridae; Scombridae (marine food fishes: mackerels; chub mackerels; tuna)

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