Jurel

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jurel \Ju"rel\, n. (Zool.)
     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
     crevall['e]}, {jack}, {buffalo jack}, {skipjack}, {yellow
     mackerel}, and sometimes, improperly, {horse mackerel}. Other


     species of {Caranx} (as {Caranx fallax}) are also sometimes
     called jurel. Juridic