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bluefin tuna

DEFINITIONS OF: bluefin tuna

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

Synonyms:
Thunnus thynnus, bluefin, horse mackerel
Type of:
tuna, tunny
any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters

n flesh of very large tuna

Synonyms:
bluefin
Type of:
tuna, tuna fish, tunny
important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks
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