| 1. | an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean. |
| 2. | any of various similar scombroid fishes. |
| 3. | (in California) the jack mackerel. |
| Spanish mackerel n. Any of various marine food fishes of the genus Scomberomorus, especially a commercially important species, S. maculatus, of American Atlantic coastal waters. |