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Noun

HYPHEN

tu=na

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun tuna has 4 senses

tuna(n = noun.plant) opuntia tuna - tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica;

is a kind of prickly pear, prickly pear cactus

tuna(n = noun.food) tuna fish, tunny - important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks;

is a part of tuna, tunny

is a kind of saltwater fish

has particulars: albacore, bonito, bluefin, bluefin tuna

tuna(n = noun.animal) tunny - any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters;

is a kind of food fish, scombroid, scombroid fish

is a member of genus thunnus, thunnus

has particulars: albacore, long-fin tunny, thunnus alalunga, bluefin, bluefin tuna, horse mackerel, thunnus thynnus, thunnus albacares, yellowfin, yellowfin tuna

has parts: tuna, tuna fish, tunny

tuna(n = noun.animal) anguilla sucklandii - New Zealand eel;

is a kind of eel

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CIDE DICTIONARY

tuna, n.

The Opuntia Tuna. See Prickly pear, under Prickly. [1913 Webster]

tuna, n. [Cf. Tunny.].

Any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the mackerel family Scombridae, especially the bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus, formerly Orcynus thynnus or Albacora thynnus), called also the common tunny or great tunny, a native of the Mediterranean Sea and of temperate parts of the Atlantic Ocean. It sometimes weighs a thousand pounds or more, and is caught commercially in large quantity for use as food; -- also called, especially in Britain, tunny. It is also one of the favorite fishes used by the Japanese in preparing sushi. On the American coast, especially in New England, it is sometimes called the horse mackerel. Another well-known species is the yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) of warm seas. the See Illust. of Horse mackerel, under Horse.
"The little tunny (Gymnosarda alletterata) of the Mediterranean and North Atlantic, and the long-finned tunny, or albacore (Thunnus alalunga) (see Albacore), are related species of smaller size." [1913 Webster]
The bonito, 2. [1913 Webster]
the meat of the tuna, used as food; -- also called tuna fish. [PJC]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

tuna, n. (pl. same or tunas)
1 any marine fish of the family Scombridae native to tropical and warm waters, having a round body and pointed snout, and used for food. Also called TUNNY.
2 (in full tuna-fish) the flesh of the tuna or tunny, usu. tinned in oil or brine.

tuna, n.
1 a prickly pear, esp. Opuntia tuna.
2 the fruit of this.

Etymology

Sp. f. Haitian

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tuna

Animal

N animal, animal kingdom, fauna, brute creation, beast, brute, creature, critter, wight, created being, creeping thing, living thing, dumb animal, dumb creature, zoophyte, mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, crustacean, shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, arthropod, microbe, microbe, animalcule, alligator, crocodile, saurian, dinosaur (extinct), snake, serpent, viper, eft, asp, aspick, frog, toad, trout, bass, tuna, muskelunge, sailfish, sardine, mackerel, ant, mosquito, bee, honeybee, tardigrade, spider, biped, quadruped, webfoot, flocks and herds, live stock, domestic animals, wild animals, game, ferae naturae, beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea, black game, black grouse, blackcock, duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe, horse, cattle, kine, ox, bull, bullock, cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn, sheep, lamb, lambkin, ewe, ram, tup, pig, swine, boar, hog, sow, steer, stot, tag, teg, bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat, dog, hound, pup, puppy, whelp, cur, mongrel, house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog, mastiff, blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound, harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever, Newfoundland, water dog, water spaniel, pug, poodle, turnspit, terrier, fox terrier, Skye terrier, Dandie Dinmont, collie, feline, puss, pussy, grimalkin, gib cat, tom cat, fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe, caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar, bird, poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl, feathered tribes, feathered songster, singing bird, dicky bird, canary, warbler, finch, aberdevine, cushat, cygnet, ringdove, siskin, swan, wood pigeon, vermin, varmint, pest, animal, zoological equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy, piscatory, piscatorial, molluscous, vermicular, gallinaceous, rasorial, solidungulate, soliped.