Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of carangoid fishes, the saurels, having the lateral line armed with bony carinate plates for its whole length.
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- noun the scads (particularly horse mackerels)
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Examples
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Bluntnose six-gill shark (Notidanus griseus), swordfish (Xiphias gladius), horse mackerel (Trachurus trachurus)
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