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BLUEFIN

Dictionary entry overview: What does bluefin mean?

• BLUEFIN (noun)
The noun BLUEFIN has 2 senses:

1. flesh of very large tuna
2. largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics

Familiarity information: BLUEFIN used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• BLUEFIN (noun)

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Meaning:

Flesh of very large tuna

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

bluefin; bluefin tuna

Hypernyms ("bluefin" is a kind of...):

tuna; tuna fish; tunny (important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks)

Holonyms ("bluefin" is a part of...):

bluefin; bluefin tuna; horse mackerel; Thunnus thynnus (largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

horse mackerel; Thunnus thynnus; bluefin; bluefin tuna

Hypernyms ("bluefin" is a kind of...):

tuna; tunny (any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters)

Meronyms (parts of "bluefin"):

bluefin; bluefin tuna (flesh of very large tuna)

Holonyms ("bluefin" is a member of...):

genus Thunnus; Thunnus (tunas: warm-blooded fishes)

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