Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - mackerel
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(mackerel) A mackerel is a sea fish with a dark, patterned back. They’d gone out to fish for mackerel. N-VAR • Mackerel is this fish eaten as food. N-UNCOUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun (plural ~ or ~s) Etymology: Middle English makerel, from Anglo-French Date: 14th century 1. a scombroid fish (Scomber scombrus of the family Scombridae) of the North Atlantic that is green above with dark blue bars and silvery below and is a commercially important food fish 2. any of various fishes (as the wahoo and king ~) in the same family as the ~ especially when distinguished from the related bonito or tuna by a comparatively smaller size ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. (pl. same or mackerels) a N. Atlantic marine fish, Scomber scombrus, with a greenish-blue body, used for food. Phrases and idioms mackerel shark a porbeagle. mackerel sky a sky dappled with rows of small white fleecy clouds, like the pattern on a mackerel's back. Etymology: ME f. AF makerel, OF maquerel ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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скумбрия (Scomber); обыкновенная скумбрия (Scomber scomber); pl скумбриевые (Scombridae) – Atka mackerel – Atlantic mackerel – banded mackerel – big-eyed mackerel – black snake mackerel – blue mackerel – Boston mackerel – bull mackerel – bullet mackerel – bull's-eye mackerel – California mackerel – chub mackerel – double-lined mackerel – frigate mackerel – giant mackerel – horse mackerel – jack mackerel – king mackerel – Pacific mackerel – school mackerel – shark mackerel – short mackerel – skip mackerel – snake mackerel – snapping mackerel – Spanish mackerel – spotted Spanish mackerel – thimble-eyed mackerel – yellow mackerel ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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- c.1300, from O.Fr. maquerel, of unknown origin but apparently identical with O.Fr. maquerel "pimp, procurer," from a Gmc. source (cf. M.Du. makelaer "broker," from O.Fris. mek "marriage"). Connection is obscure but medieval people had imaginative notions of the sex lives of animals. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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