- A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts
(Caranx chrysos), most abundant southward, where it is valued as a food
fish; -- called also hardtail, horse crevalle, jack, buffalo jack,
skipjack, yellow mackerel, and sometimes, improperly, horse mackerel.
Other species of Caranx (as C. fallax) are also sometimes called jurel.
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