Tunny

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. See tuna1.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Tuna.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A scombroid fish of the genus Orcynus, as O. thynnus.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters
  • n. important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks
  • Cross Reference
    Variant
    tuna    horse mackerel    horse    thynny   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Sonny    Tunney    bunney    bunny    funny    gunny    honey    money    runny    sonny   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    pilchard    yellowtail    fur seal    thunny    flatbread    marlin    halibut    paua    swordfish    anchovy