Spanish mackerel

English

Noun

Spanish mackerel (plural Spanish mackerels)

1. Any member of the Scomberomorini, a tribe of mackerel.
   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 233:

     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.

Synonyms

• seerfish

Translations

Translations

• Italian: lanzardo m, lanzarda f
• Manx: breck Spaainagh m
• Swedish: spansk makrill c
• Tagalog: tanigi, tangginggi
• Tok Pisin: tangir