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Definition of Albacores
1. albacore [n] - See also: albacore
Lexicographical Neighbors of Albacores
Literary usage of Albacores
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... GENUS GERMO JORDAN The albacores This genus is close to Thunnus, from which
it differs chiefly in having .the pectoral long and sabre-shaped, ..."
2. Histoire d'un voyage faict en la terre du Brésil by Jean de Léry (1880)
"CHAPITRE III Des Bonites, albacores, Dorades, ... Dorades, albacores, Bonites, &
grande quantité de ..."
3. The Big Game Fishes of the United States: A Collection of Critical Essays by Charles Burton Martin, Viktor Aleksandrovich Maksunov, Charles Frederick Holder, Amiya Chandra Chakravarty, David Malet Armstrong (1903)
"So far as known the Southern California islands are the only localities where
the albacores are caught with the rod; the conditions being particularly ..."
4. Life in the Open: Sport with Rod, Gun, Horse, and Hound in Southern California by Charles Frederick Holder (1906)
"They had agreed on the terms of the tournament, had prizes and cups, and at the
end of the day about thirty rods reported about an average of ten albacores ..."
5. Life in the Open: Sport with Rod, Gun, Horse, and Hound in Southern California by Charles Frederick Holder (1906)
"They had agreed on the terms of the tournament, had prizes and cups, and at the
end of the day about thirty rods reported about an average of ten albacores ..."
6. The big game fishes of the United States by Charles Frederick Holder (1903)
"In watching a school of tunas at this time, the albacores are seen, types of
activity, rushing hither and yon, in marked contrast to the larger fish, ..."
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