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n. Any of various tropical marine food fishes of the family Carangidae, which includes the jacks and pompanos.

n. See king mackerel.

n. A scombroid fish, Scomberomorus cavalla, found in the open seas.

n. large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to Brazil

"As I fled from the fort, I encountered a troop of returning cavalla soldiers."

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