Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various marine fishes of the suborder Scombroidei, which includes the barracudas, mackerels, and tunas.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A scombroid fish; a scombrid. Also
scomberoid .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the Mackerel family.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective pertaining to a
mackerel - noun Any fish of the family Scombridae, of which the
mackerel (Scomber) is the type.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The customers are believed to have been stricken by a form of food poisoning known as scombroid, which occurs when there is a high level of histamine in raw or uncooked fish, said Mr. Karasick.
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The customers are believed to have been stricken by a form of food poisoning known as scombroid, which occurs when there is a high level of histamine in raw or uncooked fish, said Mr. Karasick.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ROD MICKLEBURGH 2011
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The customers are believed to have been stricken by a form of food poisoning known as scombroid, which occurs when there is a high level of histamine in raw or uncooked fish, said Mr. Karasick.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ROD MICKLEBURGH 2011
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The customers are believed to have been stricken by a form of food poisoning known as scombroid, which occurs when there is a high level of histamine in raw or uncooked fish, said Mr. Karasick.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ROD MICKLEBURGH 2011
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The customers are believed to have been stricken by a form of food poisoning known as scombroid, which occurs when there is a high level of histamine in raw or uncooked fish, said Mr. Karasick.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ROD MICKLEBURGH 2011
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High levels of histamine can cause an allergic reaction called scombroid poisoning.
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High levels of histamine can cause an allergic reaction called scombroid poisoning.
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High levels of histamine can cause an allergic reaction called scombroid poisoning.
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And what better way is there to insult the scombroid landlord (resembling a mackerel) or that tumbrel of a brother-in-law (a person who is drunk to the point of vomiting) than by calling him by his rightful name?
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Certain living marine animals - the speedy, open-water dolphins, lamnid sharks [Great white and relatives] and scombroid fishes [the tuna-mackerel group] - possess the ichthyosaur body shape and surely move in an ichthyosaur-like way.
Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006
ramage commented on the word scombroid
used to describe Sammy Hilbert-Spaess, a character in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow:
"Here then," the kindly scombroid face scanning Eventyr, quick as a fire-control dish antenna and even less mercy...
January 21, 2007