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almadraba

almadraba noun: a Mediterranean fishing technique for catching Atlantic bluefin tuna consisting of suspending nets in walls that guide the fish to a central net trap where they are caught for slaughter.

Noun

almadraba (countable and uncountable, plural almadrabas)

  1. (uncountable) A Mediterranean fishing technique for catching Atlantic bluefin tuna consisting of suspending nets in walls that guide the fish to a central net trap where they are caught for slaughter.
  2. (countable) An arrangement of nets for this purpose.

Forms of almadraba

pluralalmadrabas

Origin of almadraba

From Spanish almadraba.

Questions about almadraba

What does almadraba mean?
Almadraba means a Mediterranean fishing technique for catching Atlantic bluefin tuna consisting of suspending nets in walls that guide the fish to a central net trap where they are caught for slaughter.
What part of speech is almadraba?
Almadraba is a noun.
What is the plural of almadraba?
The plural of almadraba is almadrabas.

Words near almadraba in the dictionary

  1. Almach
  2. almadia
  3. almadias
  4. almadie
  5. almadies
  6. almadraba
  7. almadrabas
  8. almae matres
  9. almagate
  10. almagest
  11. almagests

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