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albacore

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Albacore (noun) means a type of tuna with long fins, found in warm seas, whose flesh is eaten as food.

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A type of tuna with long fins, found in warm seas, whose flesh is eaten as food.
"But most of all, they were jealous because these strangers feasted daily on great turtle, albacore and sail-fish, the sweetest of all seafoods." — Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (1929)
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Etymology

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

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"albacore" (noun) means a type of tuna with long fins, found in warm seas, whose flesh is eaten as food.
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