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albacore

(al′bə kôr′)

a tuna (Thunnus alalunga) with unusually long pectoral fins, important as a game and food fish in all warm seas; loosely, other similar scombroid fishes

Origin: Port albacora < Ar al, the + bakāra, pl. of buko, young camel

See albacore in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. albacore albacore or al·ba·cores

A large marine fish (Thunnus alalunga) of warm seas, having edible flesh that is a major source of canned tuna.

Origin:

Origin: Portuguese albacor

Origin: , from Arabic al-bakūra

Origin: : al-, the

Origin: + bakūra, albacore; see bkr in Semitic roots

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