Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fish of the genus Caranx, as C. pisquetus, C. fallax, in Florida, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts (
Caranx chrysos ), most abundant southward, where it is valued as a food fish; -- called alsohardtail ,horse crevallé ,jack ,buffalo jack ,skipjack ,yellow mackerel , and sometimes, improperly,horse mackerel . Other species of Caranx (asCaranx fallax ) are also sometimes calledjurel .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
jack , edible fish of the genera Caranx or Trachurus.
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Examples
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The dock agent, like everyone in this old port south of Santiago, grew up with the bony, bronze-hued fish they call jurel, which roams in schools in the southern Pacific.
The Center for Public Integrity: 'Free-for-all' decimates fish stocks in the southern Pacific The Center for Public Integrity 2012
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Mr. Pineda, like everyone here, grew up with the bony, bronze-hued fish they call jurel, which roams in schools in the southern Pacific.
NYT > Home Page By MORT ROSENBLUM 2012
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