For further etymological speculation see the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford takes the earliest attestation of albacora in Romance to be Italian albacore (plural) in Antonio Pigafetta's Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo, dated 'ante 1525' note, however, that this word is apparently only attested in a single manuscript of the Relazione (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, L 103 sup.), of uncertain date and relation to Pigafetta's original text, which has not survived. As noted in the Oxford English Dictionary, third edition, the existence of such a word for the fish in Arabic, recorded only by a Spanish-speaking missionary to Morocco in the nineteenth century, is questionable. Traditionally Portuguese and Spanish albacora and its Romance congeners have been taken as loans from an Arabic collocation al-bakūra 'the albacore.' The fish word would supposedly be derived from the Arabic root b-k-r, seen in bikr 'first-born,' bakr 'young camel,' on the assumption that it originally alluded to young tuna. Probably borrowed from 16th-century Portuguese albaquora, albecora, of obscure origin Albacore Roll Shrimp w/ Crab Roll California Roll Avocado Roll Philadelphia. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'albacore.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Deep Fried Scallop, Crab, Avocado, Eel Sauce, Crunch. Tom Keer, Field & Stream, 16 June 2020 See More 2023 Along the Southern New England coast, Captain Dan Wood of Connecticut Woods and Waters runs his 30-foot Robalo for striped bass, bluefish, bonito, and False albacore from Rhode Island through Eastern New York. Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 15 Feb. 2023 According to the Consumer Reports findings, albacore tuna cans contained on average three times more mercury than light or skipjack tuna cans.

2023 Light tuna in general has less mercury than albacore. Erik Lacitis, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2023 Chuck also fishes for albacore tuna and halibut.

Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr.

2021 Naturally, there are plenty of fishing charters that will take you out in search of salmon, lingcod, rockfish, and albacore. Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 20 report showed signs of recovery for four popular tunas: The southern bluefin tuna moved from critically endangered to endangered, the Atlantic bluefin tuna shifted from endangered to least concern, and both the albacore and yellowfin tuna moved from near threatened to least concern. 2023 Warmer Pacific temperatures can also bring different species of fish, like yellowtail and albacore tuna, to places where the water is usually too cold. Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. Recent Examples on the Web For seafood lovers, there’s a lobster omelet ($22), albacore tuna sandwich ($15) salmon with cannelini bean salad and kale ($30).

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