bluefin tuna

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
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]

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