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albicore

albicore is the alternative form of albacore.

Meaning of albacore

Noun

albacore (plural albacores)

  1. A longfin tuna, a large marine fish (Thunnus alalunga) of warm seas, having edible flesh.
    • But most of all, they were jealous because these strangers feasted daily on great turtle, albacore and sail-fish, the sweetest of all seafoods.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 127
    Synonyms:
    albacore tuna

Forms of albicore

pluralalbicores

Origin of albicore

From French albicore (compare Spanish albacora, Portuguese albacor, albacora, albecora), from Arabic اَلْبَكُورَة (al-bakūra). See albacore.

Questions about albicore

What is albicore the alternative form of?
Albicore is the alternative form of albacore.

Words near albicore in the dictionary

  1. albicanal
  2. albicanol
  3. albicant
  4. albication
  5. Albiceleste
  6. albicore
  7. albicores
  8. albiduria
  9. albie
  10. albiet
  11. albification

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Adapted from Wiktionary: albicore (page history and authors); albacore (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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