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单词 alalonga
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alalongan.

Brit. /aləˈlɒŋɡə/, U.S. /ˌæləˈlɑŋɡə/
Forms: 1800s– alalonga, 1800s alalunga.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin alalunga, alalonga.
Etymology: < scientific Latin alalunga (P. J. Bonnaterre 1788, in Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique, Ichthyologie 139), alalonga (1814 or earlier) < Italian (originally regional: southern, Sardinia, and Sicily) alalonga , alalunga (late 18th cent. or earlier) < ala fin (see ala n.1) + longa (regional), lunga long ( < classical Latin longus : see long adj.1). Compare French †alalunga (1788 in the text by Bonnaterre cited above), †alalonga (1814 or earlier).For earlier references to the Italian word in English compare:1799 H. Hunter tr. C. S. Sonnini Trav. Upper & Lower Egypt I. 73 It is very probably that which Cette first described, under the name of alalunga, in his History of the Fishes of Sardinia, page 191.1814 Ann. Philos. 4 456 It is the germon or grande oreille of the French sailors, or ala-longa of the fishers of Sardinia..so called because the principal character which distinguishes it from tunny..consists in pectoral fins extremely long and pointed.
Now rare.
The albacore or long-finned tuna, Thunnus alalunga.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Scombroidei (mackerel) > [noun] > family Scombridae > genus Thunnus (tuna) > thunnus alalonga (yellow-fin)
albacore1579
alalonga1824
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yellowfin tuna1906
Allison tuna1922
yellowfin1961
1824 W. H. Smyth Mem. Scilly & its Islands 1. 22 There are often many other fish taken with the tunnies, all of which, except the sword-fish, the alalonga, and palanuta, become the property of the labourers.
1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics xi. 201 The trembling thunnies, pelamyds, and alalongas, which covered the bottom of the net.
1910 Bull. Bureau Fisheries 1908 28 202 The albacore, long-finned tuna, or alalonga, ranges up to 100 pounds.
1931 Internat. Rev. der Gesamten Hydrobiol. & Hydrogr. 25 64 The alalonga in Europe makes excursions northward in the Atlantic, as far as the coast of Ireland.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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