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tunny

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Noun
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tun=ny

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun tunny has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

tunnyn. [L. thunnus, thynnus, Gr. qy`nnos, qy^nos: cf. It. tonno, F. & Pr. thon.].
     The chiefly British equivalent of tuna; any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the Mackerel family, especially the common or great tunny (Thunnus thynnus syn. Albacora thynnus, formerly Orcynus thynnus) native of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It sometimes weighs a thousand pounds or more, and is extensively caught in the Mediterranean. On the American coast it is called horse mackerel. See Illust. of Horse mackerel, under Horse.  [1913 Webster]
    " The little tunny (Gymnosarda alletterata) of the Mediterranean and North Atlantic, and the long-finned tunny, or albicore (Thunnus alalunga, see Albacore), are related species of smaller size."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tunny, n. (pl. same or -ies) = TUNA(1).

Etymology
F thon f. Prov. ton, f. L thunnus f. Gk thunnos
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