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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe [syn: horse mackerel, saurel, Trachurus trachurus]
2: a California food fish [syn: horse mackerel, jack mackerel, Spanish mackerel, saurel, Trachurus symmetricus]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French, from Late Latin saurus horse mackerel, from Greek sauros horse mackerel, lizard Date: 1882 jack mackerel

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Saurel Sau"rel, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any carangoid fish of the genus Trachurus, especially T. trachurus, or T. saurus, of Europe and America, and T. picturatus of California. Called also skipjack, and horse mackerel.