1. important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales; [syn: common mackerel, shiner, Scomber scombrus]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
common mackerel
n 1: important food fish of the northern Atlantic and
Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and
small if any scales [syn: common mackerel, shiner,
Scomber scombrus]