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mackerel

B2 noun

mackerel /ˈmæk(ə)ɹəl/ nghĩa là cá thu

Các nghĩa

  1. cá thu

    Certain smaller edible fish, principally true mackerel and Spanish mackerel in family Scombridae, often speckled,

    countable · uncountable

    Mary likes mackerel.

    Holy mackerel! Is that a shark?

    We two don't know what mackerel is in Tagalog.

  2. cá thu Đại Tây Dương

    Typically Scomber scombrus in the British isles.

    countable · uncountable

    […] you may buy land now as cheap as stinking mackerel.

    He sometimes pinches the maids till their arms are as many colours as a mackerel’s back.

  3. cá thu (họ Cá thu ngừ)

    A true mackerel, any fish of tribe Scombrini (Scomber spp., Rastrelliger spp.)

    countable · uncountable

  4. cá thu (các họ cá tương tự)

    Certain other similar small fish in families Carangidae, Gempylidae, and Hexagrammidae.

    countable · uncountable

  5. mây vảy cá

    A regular pattern, similar to fish scales, of undulating small clouds with sky visible between them.

    attributive · countable · uncountable

    a mackerel sky

    MACKEREL CLOUDS.- Mackerel scales and mares' tails / Make lofty ships carry low sails.

    Mackerel clouds in sky, Expect more wet than dry. A mackerel sky, Not twenty-four hours dry.

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