albacore

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English

Thunnus alalunga

Etymology

From Portuguese albacor, from Arabic اَلْبَكُورَة (al-bakūra, “the young camels”).

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albacore (plural albacores)

  1. A longfin tuna, a large marine fish (Thunnus alalunga) of warm seas, having edible flesh.
    Synonym: albacore tuna
    • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 127:
      But most of all, they were jealous because these strangers feasted daily on great turtle, albacore and sail-fish, the sweetest of all seafoods.

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