[al-buh-kawr, -kohr] 
) -core, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -cores. | 1. | a long-finned tuna, Thunnus alalunga, of warm or temperate seas, the flesh of which is valued for canning. |
| 2. | any of various tunalike fishes. |
| al·ba·core (āl'bə-kôr', -kōr') n. pl. albacore or al·ba·cores A large marine fish (Thunnus alalunga) of warm seas, having edible flesh that is a major source of canned tuna. [Portuguese albacor, from Arabic al-bakūra : al-, the + bakūra, albacore; see bkr in Semitic roots.] |