albacore

 

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæl.bə.kɔɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

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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