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Scomber
(gcide) | Scomber \Scom"ber\, n. [L., a mackerel, Gr. sko`mbros.] (Zool.)
A genus of acanthopterygious fishes which includes the common
mackerel.
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scomber
(wn) | Scomber
n 1: type genus of the Scombridae [syn: Scomber, {genus
Scomber}] |
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scomber japonicus
(mass) | Scomber japonicus
- makrela |
Scomber colias
(gcide) | Spanish \Span"ish\, a.
Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards.
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Spanish bayonet (Bot.), a liliaceous plant ({Yucca
alorifolia}) with rigid spine-tipped leaves. The name is
also applied to other similar plants of the Southwestern
United States and mexico. Called also Spanish daggers.
Spanish bean (Bot.) See the Note under Bean.
Spanish black, a black pigment obtained by charring cork.
--Ure.
Spanish broom (Bot.), a leguminous shrub ({Spartium
junceum}) having many green flexible rushlike twigs.
Spanish brown, a species of earth used in painting, having
a dark reddish brown color, due to the presence of
sesquioxide of iron.
Spanish buckeye (Bot.), a small tree (Ungnadia speciosa)
of Texas, New Mexico, etc., related to the buckeye, but
having pinnate leaves and a three-seeded fruit.
Spanish burton (Naut.), a purchase composed of two single
blocks. A
double Spanish burton has one double and two single blocks.
--Luce (Textbook of Seamanship).
Spanish chalk (Min.), a kind of steatite; -- so called
because obtained from Aragon in Spain.
Spanish cress (Bot.), a cruciferous plant ({Lepidium
Cadamines}), a species of peppergrass.
Spanish curlew (Zool.), the long-billed curlew. [U.S.]
Spanish daggers (Bot.) See Spanish bayonet.
Spanish elm (Bot.), a large West Indian tree ({Cordia
Gerascanthus}) furnishing hard and useful timber.
Spanish feretto, a rich reddish brown pigment obtained by
calcining copper and sulphur together in closed crucibles.
Spanish flag (Zool.), the California rockfish
(Sebastichthys rubrivinctus). It is conspicuously
colored with bands of red and white.
Spanish fly (Zool.), a brilliant green beetle, common in
the south of Europe, used for raising blisters. See
Blister beetle under Blister, and Cantharis.
Spanish fox (Naut.), a yarn twisted against its lay.
Spanish grass. (Bot.) See Esparto.
Spanish juice (Bot.), licorice.
Spanish leather. See Cordwain.
Spanish mackerel. (Zool.)
(a) A species of mackerel (Scomber colias) found both in
Europe and America. In America called chub mackerel,
big-eyed mackerel, and bull mackerel.
(b) In the United States, a handsome mackerel having bright
yellow round spots (Scomberomorus maculatus), highly
esteemed as a food fish. The name is sometimes
erroneously applied to other species. See Illust. under
Mackerel.
Spanish main, the name formerly given to the southern
portion of the Caribbean Sea, together with the contiguous
coast, embracing the route traversed by Spanish treasure
ships from the New to the Old World.
Spanish moss. (Bot.) See Tillandsia (and note at that
entry).
Spanish needles (Bot.), a composite weed ({Bidens
bipinnata}) having achenia armed with needlelike awns.
Spanish nut (Bot.), a bulbous plant (Iris Sisyrinchium)
of the south of Europe.
Spanish potato (Bot.), the sweet potato. See under
Potato.
Spanish red, an ocherous red pigment resembling Venetian
red, but slightly yellower and warmer. --Fairholt.
Spanish reef (Naut.), a knot tied in the head of a
jib-headed sail.
Spanish sheep (Zool.), a merino.
Spanish white, an impalpable powder prepared from chalk by
pulverizing and repeated washings, -- used as a white
pigment.
Spanish windlass (Naut.), a wooden roller, with a rope
wound about it, into which a marline spike is thrust to
serve as a lever.
[1913 Webster]Chub \Chub\, n. [This word seems to signify a large or thick
fish. Cf. Sw. kubb a short and thick piece of wood, and perh.
F. chabot chub.] (Zool.)
A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinid[ae] or Carp
family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus;
the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes
of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius,
Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different
fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc.
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Chub mackerel (Zool.), a species of mackerel ({Scomber
colias}) in some years found in abundance on the Atlantic
coast, but absent in others; -- called also {bull
mackerel}, thimble-eye, and big-eye mackerel.
Chub sucker (Zool.), a fresh-water fish of the United
States (Erimyzon sucetta); -- called also creekfish.
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Scomber scombrus
(gcide) | Mackerel \Mack`er*el\, n. [OF. maquerel, F. maquereau (LL.
macarellus), prob. for maclereau, fr. L. macula a spot, in
allusion to the markings on the fish. See Mail armor.]
(Zool.)
Any species of the genus Scomber of the family
Scombridae, and of several related genera. They are finely
formed and very active oceanic fishes. Most of them are
highly prized for food.
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Note: The common mackerel (Scomber scombrus), which
inhabits both sides of the North Atlantic, is one of
the most important food fishes. It is mottled with
green and blue. The Spanish mackerel ({Scomberomorus
maculatus}), of the American coast, is covered with
bright yellow circular spots.
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Bull mackerel, Chub mackerel. (Zool.) See under Chub.
Frigate mackerel. See under Frigate.
Horse mackerel . See under Horse.
Mackerel bird (Zool.), the wryneck; -- so called because it
arrives in England at the time when mackerel are in
season.
Mackerel cock (Zool.), the Manx shearwater; -- so called
because it precedes the appearance of the mackerel on the
east coast of Ireland.
Mackerel guide. (Zool.) See Garfish
(a) .
Mackerel gull (Zool.) any one of several species of gull
which feed upon or follow mackerel, as the kittiwake.
Mackerel midge (Zool.), a very small oceanic gadoid fish of
the North Atlantic. It is about an inch and a half long
and has four barbels on the upper jaw. It is now
considered the young of the genus Onos, or Motella.
Mackerel plow, an instrument for creasing the sides of lean
mackerel to improve their appearance. --Knight.
Mackerel shark (Zool.), the porbeagle.
Mackerel sky, or Mackerel-back sky, a sky flecked with
small white clouds; a cirro-cumulus. See Cloud.
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Mackerel sky and mare's-tails
Make tall ships carry low sails. --Old Rhyme.
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Scomberesox saurus
(gcide) | Saury \Sau"ry\, n.; pl. Sauries. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zool.)
A slender marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and
America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also
billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack,
skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring.
[1913 Webster]Skipper \Skip"per\, n.
1. One who, or that which, skips.
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2. A young, thoughtless person. --Shak.
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3. (Zool.) The saury (Scomberesox saurus).
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4. The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.
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5. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small butterflies
of the family Hesperiadae; -- so called from their
peculiar short, jerking flight.
[1913 Webster]Billfish \Bill"fish`\ (b[i^]l"f[i^]sh`), n. (Zool.)
A name applied to several distinct fishes:
(a) The garfish (Tylosurus longirostris, or {Belone
longirostris}) and allied species.
(b) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast
(Scomberesox saurus).
(c) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species
related to the swordfish; the spearfish.
(d) The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).
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Scomberoid
(gcide) | Scomberoid \Scom"ber*oid\, a. & n. [Cf. F. scomb['e]ro["i]de.]
(Zool.)
Same as Scombroid.
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Scomberomorus caballa
(gcide) | Cero \Ce"ro\, n. [Corrupt. fr. Sp. sierra saw, sawfish, cero.]
(Zool.)
A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the
genus Scomberomorus. Two species are found in the West
Indies and less commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United
States, -- the common cero (Scomberomorus caballa), called
also kingfish, and spotted, or king, cero ({Scomberomorus
regalis}).
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Scomberomorus maculatus
(gcide) | Spanish \Span"ish\, a.
Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards.
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Spanish bayonet (Bot.), a liliaceous plant ({Yucca
alorifolia}) with rigid spine-tipped leaves. The name is
also applied to other similar plants of the Southwestern
United States and mexico. Called also Spanish daggers.
Spanish bean (Bot.) See the Note under Bean.
Spanish black, a black pigment obtained by charring cork.
--Ure.
Spanish broom (Bot.), a leguminous shrub ({Spartium
junceum}) having many green flexible rushlike twigs.
Spanish brown, a species of earth used in painting, having
a dark reddish brown color, due to the presence of
sesquioxide of iron.
Spanish buckeye (Bot.), a small tree (Ungnadia speciosa)
of Texas, New Mexico, etc., related to the buckeye, but
having pinnate leaves and a three-seeded fruit.
Spanish burton (Naut.), a purchase composed of two single
blocks. A
double Spanish burton has one double and two single blocks.
--Luce (Textbook of Seamanship).
Spanish chalk (Min.), a kind of steatite; -- so called
because obtained from Aragon in Spain.
Spanish cress (Bot.), a cruciferous plant ({Lepidium
Cadamines}), a species of peppergrass.
Spanish curlew (Zool.), the long-billed curlew. [U.S.]
Spanish daggers (Bot.) See Spanish bayonet.
Spanish elm (Bot.), a large West Indian tree ({Cordia
Gerascanthus}) furnishing hard and useful timber.
Spanish feretto, a rich reddish brown pigment obtained by
calcining copper and sulphur together in closed crucibles.
Spanish flag (Zool.), the California rockfish
(Sebastichthys rubrivinctus). It is conspicuously
colored with bands of red and white.
Spanish fly (Zool.), a brilliant green beetle, common in
the south of Europe, used for raising blisters. See
Blister beetle under Blister, and Cantharis.
Spanish fox (Naut.), a yarn twisted against its lay.
Spanish grass. (Bot.) See Esparto.
Spanish juice (Bot.), licorice.
Spanish leather. See Cordwain.
Spanish mackerel. (Zool.)
(a) A species of mackerel (Scomber colias) found both in
Europe and America. In America called chub mackerel,
big-eyed mackerel, and bull mackerel.
(b) In the United States, a handsome mackerel having bright
yellow round spots (Scomberomorus maculatus), highly
esteemed as a food fish. The name is sometimes
erroneously applied to other species. See Illust. under
Mackerel.
Spanish main, the name formerly given to the southern
portion of the Caribbean Sea, together with the contiguous
coast, embracing the route traversed by Spanish treasure
ships from the New to the Old World.
Spanish moss. (Bot.) See Tillandsia (and note at that
entry).
Spanish needles (Bot.), a composite weed ({Bidens
bipinnata}) having achenia armed with needlelike awns.
Spanish nut (Bot.), a bulbous plant (Iris Sisyrinchium)
of the south of Europe.
Spanish potato (Bot.), the sweet potato. See under
Potato.
Spanish red, an ocherous red pigment resembling Venetian
red, but slightly yellower and warmer. --Fairholt.
Spanish reef (Naut.), a knot tied in the head of a
jib-headed sail.
Spanish sheep (Zool.), a merino.
Spanish white, an impalpable powder prepared from chalk by
pulverizing and repeated washings, -- used as a white
pigment.
Spanish windlass (Naut.), a wooden roller, with a rope
wound about it, into which a marline spike is thrust to
serve as a lever.
[1913 Webster]Mackerel \Mack`er*el\, n. [OF. maquerel, F. maquereau (LL.
macarellus), prob. for maclereau, fr. L. macula a spot, in
allusion to the markings on the fish. See Mail armor.]
(Zool.)
Any species of the genus Scomber of the family
Scombridae, and of several related genera. They are finely
formed and very active oceanic fishes. Most of them are
highly prized for food.
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Note: The common mackerel (Scomber scombrus), which
inhabits both sides of the North Atlantic, is one of
the most important food fishes. It is mottled with
green and blue. The Spanish mackerel ({Scomberomorus
maculatus}), of the American coast, is covered with
bright yellow circular spots.
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Bull mackerel, Chub mackerel. (Zool.) See under Chub.
Frigate mackerel. See under Frigate.
Horse mackerel . See under Horse.
Mackerel bird (Zool.), the wryneck; -- so called because it
arrives in England at the time when mackerel are in
season.
Mackerel cock (Zool.), the Manx shearwater; -- so called
because it precedes the appearance of the mackerel on the
east coast of Ireland.
Mackerel guide. (Zool.) See Garfish
(a) .
Mackerel gull (Zool.) any one of several species of gull
which feed upon or follow mackerel, as the kittiwake.
Mackerel midge (Zool.), a very small oceanic gadoid fish of
the North Atlantic. It is about an inch and a half long
and has four barbels on the upper jaw. It is now
considered the young of the genus Onos, or Motella.
Mackerel plow, an instrument for creasing the sides of lean
mackerel to improve their appearance. --Knight.
Mackerel shark (Zool.), the porbeagle.
Mackerel sky, or Mackerel-back sky, a sky flecked with
small white clouds; a cirro-cumulus. See Cloud.
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Mackerel sky and mare's-tails
Make tall ships carry low sails. --Old Rhyme.
[1913 Webster] mackerel scad |
Scomberomorus regalis
(gcide) | Pintado \Pin*ta"do\, n.; pl. Pintados. [Sp., painted, fr.
pintar to paint.]
1. (Zool.) Any bird of the genus Numida. Several species
are found in Africa. The common pintado, or Guinea fowl,
the helmeted, and the crested pintados, are the best
known. See Guinea fowl, under Guinea.
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2. A fish (Scomberomorus regalis) similar to, but larger
than, the Spanish mackerel, and having elongated spots,
common about Florida and the West Indies.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]Cero \Ce"ro\, n. [Corrupt. fr. Sp. sierra saw, sawfish, cero.]
(Zool.)
A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the
genus Scomberomorus. Two species are found in the West
Indies and less commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United
States, -- the common cero (Scomberomorus caballa), called
also kingfish, and spotted, or king, cero ({Scomberomorus
regalis}).
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family scomberesocidae
(wn) | family Scomberesocidae
n 1: only sauries [syn: Scomberesocidae, {family
Scomberesocidae}, Scombresocidae, {family
Scombresocidae}] |
genus scomber
(wn) | genus Scomber
n 1: type genus of the Scombridae [syn: Scomber, {genus
Scomber}] |
genus scomberesox
(wn) | genus Scomberesox
n 1: a genus of Scomberesocidae [syn: Scomberesox, {genus
Scomberesox}, Scombresox, genus Scombresox] |
genus scomberomorus
(wn) | genus Scomberomorus
n 1: Spanish mackerels [syn: Scomberomorus, {genus
Scomberomorus}] |
scomber
(wn) | Scomber
n 1: type genus of the Scombridae [syn: Scomber, {genus
Scomber}] |
scomber colias
(wn) | Scomber colias
n 1: medium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of
Mexico [syn: Spanish mackerel, Scomber colias] |
scomber japonicus
(wn) | Scomber japonicus
n 1: small mackerel found nearly worldwide [syn: {chub
mackerel}, tinker, Scomber japonicus] |
scomber scombrus
(wn) | Scomber scombrus
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] |
scomberesocidae
(wn) | Scomberesocidae
n 1: only sauries [syn: Scomberesocidae, {family
Scomberesocidae}, Scombresocidae, {family
Scombresocidae}] |
scomberesox
(wn) | Scomberesox
n 1: a genus of Scomberesocidae [syn: Scomberesox, {genus
Scomberesox}, Scombresox, genus Scombresox] |
scomberesox saurus
(wn) | Scomberesox saurus
n 1: slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters [syn:
saury, billfish, Scomberesox saurus] |
scomberomorus
(wn) | Scomberomorus
n 1: Spanish mackerels [syn: Scomberomorus, {genus
Scomberomorus}] |
scomberomorus cavalla
(wn) | Scomberomorus cavalla
n 1: large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and
game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to Brazil
[syn: king mackerel, cavalla, cero, {Scomberomorus
cavalla}] |
scomberomorus maculatus
(wn) | Scomberomorus maculatus
n 1: a large commercially important mackerel of the Atlantic
coastal waters of North America |
scomberomorus regalis
(wn) | Scomberomorus regalis
n 1: large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal
Atlantic waters [syn: cero, pintado, kingfish,
Scomberomorus regalis] |
scomberomorus sierra
(wn) | Scomberomorus sierra
n 1: a Spanish mackerel of western North America [syn: sierra,
Scomberomorus sierra] |
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