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Any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus
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tunny
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks [syn: tuna , tuna fish ] any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters [syn: tuna ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But pick your brand of tunny carefully. ▪ It's tunny how things happen. ▪ It isn't worth wasting butter or work on coarse dark tunny . ▪ Sure enough, we were soon catching bonito, a fish in the tunny family which resembles a ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
large sea-fish of the mackerel order, 1520s, probably from Middle French thon (14c.), from Old Provençal ton and directly from Latin thunnus "a tuna, tunny," from Greek thynnos "a tuna, tunny," possibly with a literal sense of "darter," from thynein "dart ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. tuna.
Usage examples of tunny.
Laurence found that his black mood could not survive their enthusiasm: the boys cheered wildly each time Temeraire rose up with yet another tunny wriggling in his claws, and several of them even sought permission to climb below, the better to be splashed as Temeraire made his catch.
When the argument began to bore me because there was no Mediterranean tunny fish to be had anyhow, I went up to the top floor, to the plant rooms that had been built on the roof, and spent a couple of hours with Theodore Horstmann on the germination records.
Before Tunny could explain that he understood much too well, the screen blanked.
In spite of his purpose, Tunny walked slowly down the hall, observing with pleasure the earnest young coeds in their brief bright skirts and blouses.
While Janet stared with bewildered though lovely blue eyes, Tunny stabbed out numbers on the phone.
It lay alongside the canoe, half dead from its own exertions -- a huge burnished creature of the tunny kind.
Jack fairly shovelling it down like a boy, then half a small tunny, caught by trolling over the side, and then their almost invariable toasted cheese, a Minorcan fromatge duro, not unlike Cheddar, that toasted remarkably well.
Thankfully he had laid in good stores, and there was some advantage in being so close to the galley: bacon, ham, eggs, and coffee came to the table steaming hot, even as they sat down, along with a portion of a great tunny, rolled in pounded ship’.
Temeraire had eaten well that morning, two cows and a large tunny, and Keynes had pronounced himself satisfied with the present progress of the wound.
Ramage thought about calling at the islands to see if they had been raided, but they were almost uninhabited, the haunt of tunny fishermen.
Dinner wound on from fresh anchovies, still present in their countless millions, to steak of tunny, to a tolerable sea-pie, and so to an expected but still heartily welcome spotted dog.
They were a kind of tunny, with bluish-black backs, and silvery breastplates, whose dorsal fins threw out sparkles of gold.
They ate a large quantity of ox-tail soup, Jack fairly shovelling it down like a boy, then half a small tunny, caught by trolling over the side, and then their almost invariable toasted cheese, a Minorcan fromatge duro, not unlike Cheddar, that toasted remarkably well.
And the tunnies themselves were chasing flying squid, and the squid in their turn had pursued a shoal of silver sardines that had been browsing upon the microscopic organisms of pelagic plankton.
The tunnies, torn and battered against submerged rocks, succumbed not long afterward, as did the squid.