Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or belonging to the suborder Scombroidei, which includes marine fishes such as the mackerel.
- n. A scombroid fish.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A scombroid fish; a scombrid. Also scomberoid.
Wiktionary
- adj. pertaining to a mackerel
- n. Any fish of the family Scombridae, of which the mackerel (Scomber) is the type.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the Mackerel family.
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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 Greek σκομβρος ‘tuna, mackerel’. (Wiktionary)
- New Latin Scombroīdeī, suborder name, from Latin scomber, scombr-, mackerel, from Greek skombros. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“High levels of histamine can cause an allergic reaction called scombroid poisoning.”
“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?”
“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.”
“Ahi tuna was the culprit in the scombroid fish poisoning case, which began when a woman ate a tuna salad at a local seafood restaurant in May.”
“Friends took her to an emergency room, where she was diagnosed with scombroid poisoning, given IV fluids and an antihistamine.”
“Just when there's a lull in major foodborne illness reports, and you feel like it's safe to eat, along come toxic squash syndrome, honey intoxication and scombroid fish poisoning.”
“Dr. Jeff Duchin, chief of communicable-disease control for Public Health - Seattle & King County, said that unlike the first two toxins, scombroid fish poisoning is relatively common, occurring when certain types of fish - tuna, mackerel, mahi mahi and marlin, among others - are not kept cold.”
“Ciguatera, a naturally occurring toxin in fish, and scombroid fish poisoning, caused by eating spoiled fish, were responsible for 62 cases, about evenly divided.”
“They were related to viruses and salmonella from unknown food sources, person-to-person transmission, or scombroid and ciguatera fish poisoning.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘scombroid’.
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fish list
lots and lots of fish, a piscatorial
wetdreamablet, agnathan, ahi, ahuru, ahuruhuru, albacore, albicore, alec, alewife, allice, allis, amberjack and 840 more...
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All The Words
I enjoy collecting words, for I have no fear of them ever running out.
anacoluthon, defenestration, hypnopomp, hypnagogue, idioglossia, panopticon, tatterdemalion, abalone, caltrop, miasma, paroxysm, smalt and 475 more...
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Beastly adjectives
How would you describe your brother-in-law? Is he a tad bovine? Maybe there is something lacertilian about him? Or his business practices seem a little percesocine to you.
dasyproctine, tolypeutine, asinine, feline, canine, eusuchian, simian, musteline, cervine, caprine, percesocine, hirudine and 227 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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trustknot's Words
codger, curmudgeon, amok, torpid, turgid, craven, crepuscule, twilight, spry, mot juste, dross, schadenfreude and 66 more...
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qreen-tailed
in the Century Dictionary definition of 'menhaden' there is a misprint - I speculate- o 'qreen-tailed'for green-tailed. BUT there are alot of odd-tails out there..............
uropygium, hypural, nudicaudate, plesiosaur, macrural, curvicaudate, homocercal, jabiru, xeme, sirenian, dugong, saururaceae and 56 more...
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ramage's Words
frass, gabion, packfong, scombroid, threnodial, helminth, oblite, glabella, sconce, naptha, quirt, farrago and 5 more...
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pynchonesque
fondue, codicil, variorum, blowgun, disk jockey, malfunctioning, convoluted, grabassing, tranquilizers, hieroglyphic, hypodermic, diffusion and 83 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for scombroid.
ramage 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... Jan 21, 2007