different between scombral vs scombroid

English

From Latin scomber, scombri (“mackerel”).

scombral (not comparable)

From Ancient Greek ???????? (skómbros, “tuna, mackerel”) +? -oid.

scombroid (not comparable)

Pertaining to mackerel.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
  ‘Here then,’ the kindly scombroid face scanning Eventyr, quick as a fire-control dish antenna and even less mercy […]

scombroid (plural scombroids)

Any fish of the family Scombridae, of which the mackerel (Scomber) is the type.

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