albacore
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- noun
- /ˈæl.bə.kɔːr/
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albacora
- The restaurant served a delicious salad topped with seared albacore tuna.
- albacore tuna
- albacore trollers
Go from regular tuna to the albacore chunk tuna man life is good right?
- Go from regular tuna to the albacore chunk tuna man life is good right?
Examples
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Eventually, less than 20 albacore vessels chose to make Honolulu their home port.
Academic text (1993) -
Rafael might have prevented what happened next, but the instant his lure hit the water, an albacore struck.
Fiction book (1991) -
Said he wanted to go fishing for albacore on the way home.
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Hey, Bob, is it just me, or are the albacore really jumping?
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So, I hear the albacore are really biting this time of year.
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And they don't pay you the same for skipjack as they do albacore or tuna.
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Soon, it became apparent that something would have to be done about the albacore piling up in the well deck, or the fishing would have to stop.
Fiction book (1991) -
Beneath me in the clear water, I saw silver hordes of albacore engulfing the Chela.
Fiction book (1991) -
You haven't tasted tuna until you have a jar of homemade albacore!
Blog text (32) -
Multi-day trips (2-3 days) are offered off California and northern Mexico, targeting albacore, other tunas, and yellowtail.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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A large, fast sea fish often eaten fresh or canned
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A large sea fish that people often eat fresh, grilled or canned
A fish called albacore with long pectoral fins often used for canned tuna
A large tuna with long side fins often sold as canned fish
Surface Forms
Etymology
Albacore comes from an old Spanish or Portuguese word albacora for this kind of tuna. A helpful way to remember it is to notice alba looks like 'white', and albacore is known for its pale, mild 'white' flesh.