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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tuna
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fish
▪ The exceptions are baked beans, tuna fish and, particularly, sardines which are so good for you.
▪ A steady line of customers trooped by for tuna fish and bologna.
▪ Nothing wrong with that, except that on the end was speared a tuna fish sandwich.
▪ The boy handed him a limp paper bag that smelled of tuna fish.
▪ We have meals of tuna fish, instant noodle soup, baked beans.
▪ She says she hated being cooped up at home, concocting his favourite tuna fish salad.
▪ The tuna fish swim beneath schools of dolphins, fishermen do not discriminate and scoop up the whole lot in their nets.
sandwich
▪ I ate some fruit, followed by a tuna sandwich made with solid wholemeal bread and headed for Toby's house.
▪ I can handle this, the wink implied, so relax and eat your tuna sandwich.
steak
▪ Look for fresh sardines, tuna steaks and king prawns, or use some more exotic varieties such as parrot fish or snappers.
▪ Remove from heat and let rest in pan until the tuna steaks have been grilled.
▪ Grill the tuna steaks for 3 to 5 minutes per side, depending on thickness.
▪ Grilled tuna steaks are red meat from the sea.
■ VERB
canned
▪ Tuna, salmon, and sardines are the most frequently purchased kinds of canned fish.
▪ Choose water-packed canned tuna over the oil-based variety.
▪ Leftovers make a good substitute for canned tuna in salads or sandwiches.
catch
▪ These custom-built vessels have been designed to catch only tuna - in huge quantities.
▪ Proceeds go to the environmental group in the fight to save creatures killed in their thousands in nets set to catch tuna.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cod/salmon/tuna etc steak
▪ Grill the tuna steaks for 3 to 5 minutes per side, depending on thickness.
▪ Grilled tuna steaks are red meat from the sea.
▪ Look for fresh sardines, tuna steaks and king prawns, or use some more exotic varieties such as parrot fish or snappers.
▪ Remove from heat and let rest in pan until the tuna steaks have been grilled.
▪ Season the cod steaks and place them on top of the tomato mixture.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A mild whitefish fillet can be substituted for the tuna pictured here.
▪ Add tuna patties and cook, turning once, about 6 minutes per side or until lightly browned.
▪ Press the tuna firmly round the base and up the sides.
▪ The tuna tartare with chopped avocado, the clam chowder with smoked bacon and the giant Louisiana prawns were all a hit.
▪ These importers have have agreed to finance and police an inspectorate to ensure that they are not unwittingly buying drift-net tuna.
▪ Try tuna, sardines or anchovies, or chopped spinach with plenty of garlic and black pepper.
▪ We put a buoy on her; a tuna buoy, a twelve-footer.
▪ With some tuna mousse, if you're really feeling peckish.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
tuna

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.]

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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tuna

1881, from American Spanish (California) tuna, from Spanish atun, from Arabic tun, borrowed, probably in Spain, from Latin thunnus "tunny" (see tunny).

Wiktionary
tuna

Etymology 1 n. 1 Any of several species of fish of the genus ''Thunnus'' in the family Scombridae. 2 The edible flesh of the tuna. Etymology 2

n. 1 The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus ''Opuntia''. 2 The fruit of the cactus.

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WordNet
tuna

  1. n. 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]

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Wikipedia
Tuna (Polynesian mythology)

In Polynesian mythology, Tuna is the god of eels who was sentenced to be executed (by the Upolo) after trying to rape Sina (who had grown him in a jar). He asked that his severed head be buried in the sand and from it, the first coconut palm grew.

Category:Polynesian mythology

Tuna (disambiguation)

A tuna is a fish from the family Scombridae which is heavily fished commercially. Tuna may also refer to:

Tuña

Tuña is one of 44 parishes (administrative divisions) in Tineo, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

Category:Parishes in Tineo

Tuna (music)

A tuna is a group of university students in traditional university dress who play traditional instruments and sing serenades. The tradition originated in Spain and Portugal in the 13th century as a means of students to earn money or food. Nowadays students don't belong to a "tuna" for money nor food, but seeking to keep a tradition alive, for fun, to travel a lot and to meet new people from other universities. A member of a tuna is a "tunante", but is usually known simply as a "tuno". "Sopista" was the name given in the earlier times of the "tunas" but is still accepted as well. The most famous Tuna player of all time without a question is Inês "Pipax" Rodrigues of Tuna ForTuna.

Tuna (name)

Tuna is a unisex Turkish given name and surname. It means Danube in Turkish.

Tuna (singer)

Altuna Sejdiu (; born July 14, 1985 in Skopje), known professionally as Tuna, is an Albanian singer-songwriter from Macedonia. She has released seven albums, and many singles. Her discography includes songs in Albanian, Macedonian and English.

Tuna (dog)

Tuna is a Chihuahua Dachshund crossbreed dog, best known as an internet celebrity, and an internet meme. He was abandoned by his original owner near San Diego, and was adopted at a farmer's market in Los Angeles by Courtney Dasher. After she created an Instagram page for him, a photo of him was featured on the company's website resulting in an increase in followers. Dasher has used Tuna's celebrity status to raise money for animal rescue groups as well as promoting the cause generally. A book of photographs of Tuna was released in 2015, entitled Tuna Melts My Heart: The Underdog With The Overbite.

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Usage examples of "tuna".

Drop in for a seasonal menu, which features hearty winter rib-grippers such as veal osso bucco with creamy roast garlic mushroom polenta and braised greens or somewhat lighter warm-weather fare such as cumin-crusted ahi tuna with beluga lentils, roasted vegetables, and red wine sauce.

We went home, where I ate tuna out of a can while she wrote a poem using the rhythms of the gamelan, about shadow puppets and the gods of chance.

Angels and Charlie the Tuna and the Lone Ranger and the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman and Josephine the Plumber and Gavin MacLeod and Blake Carrington and Alexis and Dobie Gillis and Gilligan and the Skipper and That Girl and Charles Nelson Reilly and Allen Ludden and Betty White and Big Bird and Maude and Sam Malone and Sam McCloud and Pat Robertson and Kermit and Barney and Willard Scott and Rin Tin Tin and David Brinkley and Perry Mason and the Millionaire and Mr.

Just before sundown, Muese dug up the pig and spent a half-hour carving it, while others tended to the chicken and slabs of tuna and masi masi.

They dined on marinated tuna steaks, rice pilaf, and a mixed green salad.

The vast schools of bonito and mackerel, the swarms of small white squid, the pelagic jacks, the herds of tuna, the voracious wahoo and barracuda, all were gone.

They were out there every day, setting thirty-mile-long nets to intercept the migrators, and they were getting everything: tuna and billfish, mackerel and wahoos, sharks and bonitos and jacks and porpoises.

Hiroshi and Kenzo and Jiro dropped their long lines into the Pacific, lines full of gleaming barbless hooks that a hungry tuna might mistake for a minnow.

Then he placed prewashed, precut salad greens on a paper plate, added a can of tuna because he needed protein, ate quickly without tasting, went to sleep.

The dinner had been fabulous: a green salad with ginger dressing, shitake mushrooms, a grilled tuna steak with teriyaki sauce, California maki, and green tea ice cream for dessert.

Eating great food, tropical shrimp ceviche, rare ahi tuna, butternut squash enchiladas.

Antarctic deep-ocean water carries nutrients which feed economically important fisheries in many parts of the world - Argentine hake, Brazilian tuna, South African pilchard and the remnants of the Peruvian anchoveta fishery.

They were out there every day, setting thirty-mile-long nets to intercept the migrators, and they were getting everything: tuna and billfish, mackerel and wahoos, sharks and bonitos and jacks and porpoises.

The sound yanked her out of that household chore like a bluefin tuna pulled out of the Chesapeake Bay.

In a matter of minutes, the dripping nets were hauled back up to the deck, laden with bluefin tuna.