Found 4 items, similar to Tunas.
Indonesian → English (Kamus Landak)
Definition: tunas
bud
Indonesian → English (quick)
Definition: tunas
bud, shoot
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: tuna
tuna
n 1: tropical American flat-jointed prickly pear; Jamaica [syn:
Opuntia tuna
]
2: important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the
family Scombridae; usually served as steaks [syn:
tuna fish
,
tunny]
3: any very large marine food and game fish of the genus
Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters [syn:
tunny]
4: New Zealand eel [syn:
Anguilla sucklandii]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Tuna
Tuna
\Tu"na\, n. (Bot.)
The
Opuntia Tuna. See
Prickly pear, under
Prickly.
[1913 Webster]
Tuna
\Tu"na\, n. [Cf.
Tunny.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
Note: 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 +PJC]
2. The bonito, 2.
[1913 Webster]
3. the meat of the tuna, used as food; -- also called
tuna fish
.
[PJC]