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Definition of: mackerel
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(mak′ər·əl) noun
1. An Atlantic food fish (Scomber scombrus), steel–blue above with blackish bars, and silvery beneath.
2. Some scombroid fish resembling it, as the Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus maculatus). [<OF makerel; ult. origin unknown]
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