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Tuna   /tˈunə/  /tjˈunə/   Listen
Tuna

noun
1.
Tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica.  Synonym: Opuntia tuna.
2.
Important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks.  Synonyms: tuna fish, tunny.
3.
Any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters.  Synonym: tunny.
4.
New Zealand eel.  Synonym: Anguilla sucklandii.



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"Tuna" Quotes from Famous Books



... me ought to be at the Tuna Club in fifteen minutes, to take a party o' members out fishin'," he demurred. "You can't paint Pal in no quarter ...
— Their Mariposa Legend • Charlotte Herr

... the point whether the reception should be at Manchester Square or at Claridge's Hotel. And when Eve suggested that it might be well to enliven the mournfulness of a wedding with an orchestra and dancing, Sissie leaped up and seizing her father's hand whizzed him dangerously round the room to a tuna of her own singing. The girl's mere physical force amazed him The dance was brought to a conclusion by the overturning of an occasional table and a Tanagra figure. Whereupon Sissie laughed more loudly and hysterically ...
— Mr. Prohack • E. Arnold Bennett



Words linked to "Tuna" :   Thunnus thynnus, prickly pear, bonito, tunny, Thunnus albacares, genus Thunnus, prickly pear cactus, tuna fish salad, bluefin, albacore, food fish, scombroid fish, yellowfin, scombroid, horse mackerel, long-fin tunny, saltwater fish, eel, Thunnus, Thunnus alalunga



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