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Answer for the clue "Bluefins ", 7 letters:
tunnies

Word definitions for tunnies in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tunny \Tun"ny\ (t[u^]n"n[y^]), n.; pl. Tunnies . [L. thunnus, thynnus, Gr. qy`nnos, qy^nos: cf. It. tonno, F. & Pr. thon.] (Zo["o]l.) The chiefly British equivalent of tuna ; any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the Mackerel family, ...

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n. (tunny English)

Usage examples of tunnies.

And the tunnies themselves were chasing flying squid, and the squid in their turn had pursued a shoal of silver sardines that had been browsing upon the microscopic organisms of pelagic plankton.

The tunnies, torn and battered against submerged rocks, succumbed not long afterward, as did the squid.

It felt like the clouds were herding them, like a pair of netters funneling a school of tunnies into a small cove for the slaughter.

Once we passed through the midst of a school of tunnies, leaping and thrashing the sea into foam, yet none would seize our hook.