cavalla

Plural: cavallas

Noun

• A large, edible marine fish, typically of the jack family.
• large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to Brazil
• Any of several fishes in the families Carangidae and Scombridae.

Examples

• Finding CAVALLA on his rack, he hooked a double word score, much to his opponent’s dismay.

Synonyms

cero, king mackerel, Scomberomorus cavalla