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Bluefin

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A local name in the United States of the lake-herring or whitefish of Lake Michigan, Coregonus nigripinnis. See cisco.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A species of whitefish (Coregonus nigripinnis) found in Lake Michigan.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. bluefin tuna, a number of types of tuna characterised by their blue fins.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics
  • noun. flesh of very large tuna
  • Word Usage
    "First of all, selling a big bluefin is not as easy as catching one and running to the market."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    tuna  tuna fish  tunny  
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