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bluefin tuna

noun

1. flesh of very large tuna

• Syn: ↑bluefin

• Hypernyms: ↑tuna, ↑tuna fish, ↑tunny

• Part Holonyms: ↑bluefin, ↑horse mackerel, ↑Thunnus thynnus

2. largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics

• Syn: ↑bluefin, ↑horse mackerel, ↑Thunnus thynnus

• Hypernyms: ↑tuna, ↑tunny

• Member Holonyms: ↑Thunnus, ↑genus Thunnus

• Part Meronyms: ↑bluefin

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noun

see bluefin 2

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/blooh"fin'/

a large tuna, Thunnus thynnus, common in temperate seas. See illus. under tuna.

[1920-25; BLUE + FIN]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.