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tunnies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. (tunny English)
Usage examples of "tunnies".
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.
It felt like the clouds were herding them, like a pair of netters funneling a school of tunnies into a small cove for the slaughter.
Once we passed through the midst of a school of tunnies, leaping and thrashing the sea into foam, yet none would seize our hook.