Definitions for albacores

albacores al·ba·core

Spelling: [al-buh-kawr, -kohr]
IPA: /ˈæl bəˌkɔr, -ˌkoʊr/

Albacores is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 598 anagrams from letters in albacores (aabcelors).

Definitions for albacores

noun

  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.

Origin of albacores

1570-80; Portuguese albacora ≪ North African Arabic al-bakūrah the tuna

Examples for albacores

There's plenty of albacore over here to-night for everybody.

The albacore, he noticed suddenly, had ceased to slip through the chute.

Many boatmen and anglers believe that the broadbills follow the albacore.

The fishing fleet were loaded to the gunwales with albacore.

As far as swordfish are concerned, it is easy to see what will happen, now that the albacore have become scarce.

One Jap, using a little net, dips up live bait and throws them overboard to the albacore.

It also adheres to whales, turtles, and the larger kinds of albacore.

Then, I have ten new boats, just the kind you have to have for albacore and tuna.

albacore feeding on the surface raise a thin, low, white line of water or multitudes of slight, broken splashes.

Then we put on an albacore and drew that, tail first, in front of him.

Word Value for albacores
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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