Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A local name of the smolt or young salmon of the first year.
  • noun A local English name of the little weever.
  • noun A whitefish, Coregonus nigripinnis, of the deep waters of Lake Michigan, conspicuous by its blackish fins, but otherwise resembling a cisco.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) See bluefin.

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  • noun bluefin tuna

Etymologies

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black +‎ fin

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Examples

  • He'll filet a blackfin tuna, throw the chunks of meat in the bag with lime juice and throw it into the ice chest.

    The Best Camp Dinner Ever 2009

  • He'll filet a blackfin tuna, throw the chunks of meat in the bag with lime juice and throw it into the ice chest.

    The Best Camp Dinner Ever 2009

  • These tips usually start with something such as, "I was in Saskatchewan with an Indian guide this one time ..." or, "My first world-record was a 19-pound blackfin tuna I hooked off of Key West in 1964. ..."

    The Big Catch: Fly-fishing guru 'Lefty' Kreh of Maryland is still making a splash 2010

  • We netted up a bunch of live pilchards, literally over 1000 and anchored up over a reef out about 10 miles and proceeded to create a feeding frenzy of kingfish, bonito, blackfin tuna, mahi, red snapper, sailfish and wahoo.

    Good Guide, Bad Guide 2008

  • Mexican waters yield the albacore, yellowfin, blackfin, bigeye, Pacific bluefin and northern bluefin species of the Thunnus genus.

    Culinary guide to Mexican fish and shellfish: Las delicias del mar I 2006

  • The real future of the company, McInerney, a trained chef with an impressive résumé, implied, is in prepared foods: the sesame-marinated skirt steak, the Tobago wild blackfin tuna kabobs, the thin-crust frozen pizzas that, he said, even the staff was buying.

    Deliverance 2006

  • The real future of the company, McInerney, a trained chef with an impressive résumé, implied, is in prepared foods: the sesame-marinated skirt steak, the Tobago wild blackfin tuna kabobs, the thin-crust frozen pizzas that, he said, even the staff was buying.

    Deliverance 2006

  • Mexican waters yield the albacore, yellowfin, blackfin, bigeye, Pacific bluefin and northern bluefin species of the Thunnus genus.

    Culinary guide to Mexican fish and shellfish: Las delicias del mar I 2006

  • Mexican waters yield the albacore, yellowfin, blackfin, bigeye, Pacific bluefin and northern bluefin species of the Thunnus genus.

    Culinary guide to Mexican fish and shellfish: Las delicias del mar I 2006

  • The real future of the company, McInerney, a trained chef with an impressive résumé, implied, is in prepared foods: the sesame-marinated skirt steak, the Tobago wild blackfin tuna kabobs, the thin-crust frozen pizzas that, he said, even the staff was buying.

    Deliverance 2006

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