Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

yellowfin tuna

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.21 in modern English

Syllables: yel-lowfin -tu-na
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An edible species of tuna, Thunnus albacares, found especially in tropical seas.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The experiment in the first period targeted skipjack tuna and the second, yellowfin tuna."
"2009, Kurt M. Schaefer, Daniel W. Fuller, Barbara A. Block, Vertical Movements and Habitat Utilization of Skipjack (Katsuwonis pelamis), Yellowfin (Thunnus albacares), and Bigeye (Thunnus obesus) Tunas in the Equatorial Eastern Pacific Ocean, Ascertained through Archival Tag Data, During the daytime, skipjack and yellowfin tunas occasionally exhibited repetitive bounce-dive foraging behavior well below the thermocline to depths of the deep scattering layer, between 225 and 400 m."
"Ohta and Kakuma (2005) reported that adult yellowfin tuna showed a similar diurnal vertical swimming pattern and dived to depths over 200 m."

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

yellowfin tunas (plural)

Synonyms

ahi yellowfin thunnus albacares

Questions

What does yellowfin tuna mean?: An edible species of tuna, Thunnus albacares, found especially in tropical seas.

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