noun
1. largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics
• Syn: ↑bluefin, ↑bluefin tuna, ↑Thunnus thynnus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Thunnus, ↑genus Thunnus
• Part Meronyms: ↑bluefin, ↑bluefin tuna
2. large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe
• Syn: ↑saurel, ↑Trachurus trachurus
• Hypernyms: ↑scad
3. a California food fish
• Syn: ↑jack mackerel, ↑Spanish mackerel, ↑saurel, ↑Trachurus symmetricus
• Hypernyms: ↑scad
Useful english dictionary. 2012.