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Definitions: Albacore |
AlbacoreNoun1. Relatively small tuna with choice white flesh; major source of canned tuna. 2. Large pelagic tuna the source of most canned tuna; reaches 93 pounds and has long pectoral fins; found worldwide in tropical and temperate waters. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: AlbacoreSynonym: long-fin tunny (n). (additional references) |
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| Thunnus alalunga |
The albacore (Thunnus alalunga Bonnaterre, 1788) is an important food fish, a type of tuna (family Scombridae). It is found in the open waters of all tropical and temperate oceans, and the Mediterranean Sea.
The pectoral fins of the albacore are very long, as much as 30% of the total length. The dorsal spines are 11-14 in number, and well forward of the rays of the dorsal fin. The anterior spines are much longer, giving a concave outline to the spiny part of the dorsal fin. Lengths range up to 140 cm and weights up to 60.3 km.
Albacores swim in schools, and may form mixed schools with skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis), yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) and bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii). They are predators, feeding on smaller fishes, crustaceans, and squids, and are in turn eaten by marlins and wahoos.
Albacore is a prized food, and the albacore fishery is economically significant. Methods of fishing include pole and line, longlining, and some purse seining. The best-quality canned tuna is made from albacore. However, albacores have been observed to accumulate higher levels of mercury than other types of tuna, and some group have urged testing and recall of canned albacore with high mercury levels. Albacores are also sought after by sport fishers.
This species may also be called albacore fish, albacore tuna, bastard albacore, bonito (but see bonito), longfin tuna, longfin tunny, or even just tuna.
In some parts of the world, other species may be called "albacore":
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Albacore."
Crosswords: Albacore |
| English words defined with "albacore": Orcynus alalonga. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Faust 3: Candida Albacore (1988) | |
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 | Scientist preparing to tag albacore tuna - Thunnus alalunga.Credit: Fisheries. |  | Happy angler displays two albacore tuna aboard charter (CPFV) vessel.Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Happy angler displays albacore tuna aboard charter (CPFV) vessel.Credit: Fisheries. |  | A catch of albacore tuna on the bridge deck. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Supervisory Naval Architect Morton Gertler directs Instrument Maker Carson W. Caudle in preparing a model of the submarine for further tests at the David Taylor Model Basin, Carderock, Maryland, 1 March 1956. "This new type of submarine hull design was selected from a systematic series of streamlined bodies developed by Mr. Gertler, who also supervised the thorough development testing program that resulted in the hull and appendages as they now exist on the submarine Albacore." (quoted from the original picture caption).Credit: NAVY. |  | An officer looks through the periscope in the submarine's control room, 27 October 1955. This photograph was released by the Department of Defense on 12 December 1955 as part of a press release announcing the use of the Albacore hull design for the new SSN-585 (Skipjack) class of nuclear-powered submarines.Credit: NAVY. |
| Supervisory Naval Architect Morton Gertler directs Instrument Maker Carson W. Caudle in preparing a model of the submarine for further tests at the David Taylor Model Basin, Carderock, Maryland, 1 March 1956. "This new type of submarine hull design was selected from a systematic series of streamlined bodies developed by Mr. Gertler, who also supervised the thorough development testing program that resulted in the hull and appendages as they now exist on the submarine Albacore." (quoted from the original picture caption).Credit: NAVY. | ||
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| "Albacore" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Albacore" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 88.89% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "albacore"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | вид тон (skip jack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | thunnin (Atlantic black skipjack, Atlantic blackskipjack, false albacore, little tuna, little tunny, mackerel tuna). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kleine tonijn (Atlantic black skipjack, Atlantic blackskipjack, false albacore, little tuna, little tunny, mackerel tuna), dwergtonijn (Atlantic blackskipjack, false albacore, little tuna, little tunny, mackerel tuna). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tunniina (Atlantic black skipjack, false albacore, little tuna, little tunny, mackerel tuna). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | germon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Thonine (Atlantic black skipjack, Atlantic blackskipjack, false albacore, little tuna, little tunny, mackerel tuna), Kleiner Thun (Atlantic black skipjack, Atlantic blackskipjack, false albacore, little tuna, little tunny, mackerel tuna), Gefleckter Thunfisch (Atlantic black skipjack, Atlantic blackskipjack, false albacore, little tuna, little tunny, mackerel tuna), Falscher Bonito (Atlantic black skipjack, Atlantic blackskipjack, false albacore, little tuna, little tunny, mackerel tuna). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καρβούνι (Atlantic black skipjack, false albacore, little tuna, little tunny, mackerel tuna), λεκατίκι (Atlantic black skipjack, false albacore, little tuna, little tunny, mackerel tuna), τάσκα (Atlantic black skipjack, false albacore, little tuna, little tunny, mackerel tuna), τονίνα (Atlantic black skipjack, false albacore, little tuna, little tunny, mackerel tuna). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hosszú tintahal, germon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | alletterato (Atlantic black skipjack, Atlantic blackskipjack, false albacore, little tuna, little tunny, mackerel tuna), tonnetto (Atlantic black skipjack, Atlantic blackskipjack, false albacore, little tuna, little tunny, mackerel tuna, striped bonito). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 鬢長 (germon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | び"なが (germon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 개다랑어. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | albacoreay atum branco. (various references) albacora (Atlantic black skipjack, Atlantic blackskipjack, Atlantic bluefin tuna, Atlantic tuna, bluefin tuna, common tunny, false albacore, little tuna, little tunny, mackerel tuna, Northern bluefin tuna, tuna, tunny), toñina (Atlantic black skipjack, Atlantic blackskipjack, false albacore, little tuna, little tunny, mackerel tuna), sarda (Atlantic black skipjack, Atlantic blackskipjack, Atlantic mackerel, common mackerel, false albacore, little tuna, little tunny, mackerel, mackerel tuna), bacoreta (Atlantic black skipjack, Atlantic blackskipjack, false albacore, little tuna, little tunny, mackerel tuna). (various references) tunnina (Atlantic black skipjack, false albacore, little tuna, little tunny, mackerel tuna). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Thunnus alalunga bonnaterre. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "albacore": albacores. (additional references) | |
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"Albacore" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abbacourt, Abecor, albacor, albacora. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "albacore" (pronounced a"lbukô'r) |
| 3 | -k ô' r | encore. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-l-o-r" | |
-1 letter: acerola. | |
-2 letters: aboral, arable, areola, boreal, coaler, corbel, oracle, recoal. | |
-3 letters: abler, acerb, areal, areca, baler, blare, blear, bolar, boral, brace, cabal, caber, cable, carbo, carle, carob, carol, ceorl, claro, clear, coala, coble, cobra, coral, craal, labor, labra, lacer, lobar, ocrea, roble. | |
-4 letters: able, acre, aero, alae, alar, alba, alec, aloe, arco, area, baal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-l-o-r" | |
+1 letter: albacores, barcarole, caballero, carbazole. | |
+2 letters: barcaroles, barcarolle, broadscale, caballeros, carbazoles, comparable, factorable. | |
+3 letters: aerobically, barcarolles, carboxylase, carboxylate, clapboarded, collaborate, overbalance, relocatable. | |
+4 letters: approachable, carboxylases, carboxylated, carboxylates, collaborated, collaborates, contrastable, correlatable, elasmobranch, forecastable, incomparable, microbalance, microwavable, nonbacterial, overbalanced, overbalances, reproachable, secobarbital, vocabularies. | |
+5 letters: anaerobically, campylobacter, cocarboxylase, collaborative, decarboxylase, decarboxylate, elasmobranchs, microbalances, microwaveable, mycobacterial, noncomparable, overbalancing, particleboard, polycarbonate, problematical, recalibration, secobarbitals. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 62 61 63 6F 72 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. -... .- -.-. --- .-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01100010 01100001 01100011 01101111 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l b a c o r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 0062 0061 0063 006F 0072 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3578686769818471 |
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