Meanings
plural Spanish mackerels
- Any member of the Scomberomorini, a tribe of mackerel.
The war raged on for what seemed like hours between the old man weakened in his travels, and the fish, the long, narrow, silver body of a giant Spanish mackerel, spinning through the water with one of Norm Phantom’s lines hooked into its mouth.
2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 233Synonyms: seerfish
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAny member of the Scomberomorini, a tribe of mackerel.
More synonyms by meaning
nounmedium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Italian lanzardo, lanzarda
- lanzardoTranslations
- lanzardaTranslations
Swedish spansk makrill
- spansk makrillTranslations
Tagalog tanigi, tangginggi
- tanigiTranslations
- tangginggiTranslations
Cite this entry
Spanish mackerel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Spanish%20mackerel
“Spanish mackerel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Spanish%20mackerel. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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