different between albacore vs yellowtail

English

Etymology

From Portuguese albacor, from Arabic ????????????? (al-bak?ra, “the young camels”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æl.b?.k??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

albacore (plural albacores)

1. A large marine fish Thunnus alalunga of warm seas, having edible flesh.
   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 127):

     But most of all, they were jealous because these strangers feasted daily on great turtle, albacore and sail-fish, the sweetest of all seafoods.

Translations

English

Etymology

Bahuvrihi compound of yellow +? tail

Adjective

yellowtail (not comparable)

1. Having a yellow tail.

Noun

yellowtail (plural yellowtails)

1. Yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi).
2. A fish native to the northwest Pacific, often used in sushi, the Japanese amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata).
3. Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:
   1. Atlantic bumper (Chloroscombrus chrysurus).
   2. yellowtail flounder (Limanda ferruginea).
   3. yellowtail snapper (Ocyurus chrysurus).
   4. whitespotted devil (Plectroglyphidodon lacrymatus).
   5. yellowtail horse mackerel (Trachurus novaezelandiae).
4. A European moth (Euproctis similis)
5. The yellow-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus), a large cockatoo native to the south-east of Australia.
6. The yellow-tailed oriole (Icterus mesomelas), a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae.
7. The yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Oreonax flavicauda), a New World primate endemic to Peru.

Synonyms

• (Seriola quinqueradiata): buri, hamachi, Japanese amberjack

Derived terms

• yellowtail cribo (Drymarchon corais corais)
• yellowtail amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata)
• yellowtail barracuda (Sphyraena flavicauda)
• yellowtail flounder (Limanda ferruginea, syn. Pleuronectes ferruginea)
• yellowtail horse mackerel (Trachurus novaezelandiae)
• yellowtail snapper (Ocyurus chrysurus)

References

• yellowtail at OneLook Dictionary Search
• yellowtail in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Yellowtail (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia