- Any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging
to the Mackerel family, especially the common or great tunny (Orcynus /
Albacora thynnus) native of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic
Ocean. It sometimes weighs a thousand pounds or more, and is
extensively caught in the Mediterranean. On the American coast it is
called horse mackerel. See Illust. of Horse mackerel, under Horse.
Definition
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