Crossword clues for bluefin
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bluefin \Blue"fin`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A species of whitefish ( Coregonus nigripinnis) found in Lake Michigan.
Wiktionary
n. bluefin tuna, a number of types of tuna characterised by their blue fins.
WordNet
n. flesh of very large tuna [syn: bluefin tuna]
largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics [syn: bluefin tuna, horse mackerel, Thunnus thynnus]
Wikipedia
Bluefin or Blue Fin or variant may refer to:
- Bluefin tuna (disambiguation), a subset of multiple species of tuna
- Bluefin Robotics, a maker of autonomous underwater vehicles, including the Bluefin-21 used in the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 search
- Bluefin Labs, Massachusetts television analytics company
- New York Bluefins, (2010–2013) professional hockey team based in New York in the Federal Hockey League
- Blue Fin (1978 film), Australian family movie
- MV Blue Fin (ship), a cargoship built in 1945 and sunk in 1965
Usage examples of "bluefin".
The Russians, as well as everyone else in the world, knew that the Barracuda had gone down and that the Bluefin was the only other American sub fitted out with blisters.
Edwards had designed the special instrumentation for the Barracuda and the Bluefin that monitored the thermal variations in the water surrounding the submarine, giving the skipper a constant readout of temperature differentials.
I examined them and positively identified the blister markings of a submarine exactly like the Barracuda and the Bluefin, and placed them in my office safe .
And the Bluefin is on station five thousand miles from where you saw this submarine.
The submarine would probably turn out to be the Bluefin after all, or a modified Russian boat that was simply off course.
And now he was waiting for the Bluefin someday to meet the same fate .
The Thresher, the Bluefin, the Scorpion-the Navy never gave up until everyone was found.
Padstow, Cornwall This book is printed on acid-free paper I Lahaina, Maui, 1854 The warm, coarse beach sand was the odd pinkish color of the squirrelfish, the ocean as deep an aqua as the bluefin trevally.
The sound yanked her out of that household chore like a bluefin tuna pulled out of the Chesapeake Bay.
In a matter of minutes, the dripping nets were hauled back up to the deck, laden with bluefin tuna.
The line was calibrated to a tensile strength of one hundred twenty pounds, for it was designed to withstand the deep-water surges of giant marlin and bluefin tuna.
In better days, bluefin was worth its weight in gold, but not any more.
Landford had ordered Dane to transport Sir Henry to Gibraltar, a duty better suited to the sloop Bluefin or one of the frigates, not a lumbering two-decker.
The water churning red with tiny crustaceans, the spouts of the humpbacks and the sei and bluefins, the tang of sea-salt and foam - I remembered the sea as if I had lived in the water for a million years.
The water churning red with tiny crustaceans, the spouts of the humpbacks and the sei and bluefins, the tang of sea-salt and foam-I remembered the sea as if I had lived in the water for a million years.