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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: tunny
tunny
n 1: important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the
family Scombridae; usually served as steaks [syn:
tuna,
tuna fish]
2: any very large marine food and game fish of the genus
Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters [syn:
tuna]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Tunny
Tunny
\Tun"ny\ (t[u^]n"n[y^]), n.; pl.
Tunnies. [L. thunnus,
thynnus, Gr. qy`nnos, qy^nos: cf. It. tonno, F. & Pr. thon.]
(Zo["o]l.)
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. [Written also
thynny.]
[1913 Webster]
Note: 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]
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