tuna
1- any of several large food and game fishes of the family Scombridae, inhabiting temperate and tropical seas.Compare albacore, bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna.
- any of various related fishes.
- Also called tuna fish. the flesh of the tuna, used as food.
Origin of tuna
1tuna
2- any of various prickly pears, especially either of two erect, treelike species, Opuntia tuna or O. ficus-indica, of Mexico, bearing a sweet, edible fruit.
- the fruit of these plants.
Origin of tuna
2Related Words for tuna
macho, manly, muscular, gallant, brave, bold, hardy, hunk, adult, stud, jock, male, ape, caveman, stallion, beefcake, tuna, courageous, hairy, honorableExamples from the Web for tuna
Contemporary Examples of tuna
Champagne, which is also acidic, offers a nice complement to anything from tuna tartare to beef bourguignon.
While the President chomped on his tuna fish sandwich, the Blackhawk pilot explained the details of his crash.
The next step was to steal one of the six pound tuna cans from the warehouse.
The birdman cooked the flesh in his ‘kitchen’, which was a tuna can on top of an ‘eye’ just like mine.
Who the hell would have a tuna sandwich first thing in the morning?
Historical Examples of tuna
When the tuna is raised so high he will refuse to come any higher, and then there is a deadlock.
Tales of FishesZane Grey
If the angler rests the tuna will not only rest, too, but he will take more and more line.
Tales of FishesZane Grey
When I think of Sam I think of tuna—those torpedoes of the ocean.
Tales of FishesZane Grey
There lives no fisherman but what there lives a tuna that can take the conceit and the fight out of him.
Tales of FishesZane Grey
These tuna may return next year and then again they may not return for ten years.
Tales of FishesZane Grey
tuna
1- Also called: tunny any of various large marine spiny-finned fishes of the genus Thunnus, esp T. thynnus, chiefly of warm waters: family Scombridae . They have a spindle-shaped body and widely forked tail, and are important food fishes
- any of various similar and related fishes
Word Origin for tuna
tuna
2- any of various tropical American prickly pear cacti, esp Opuntia tuna, that are cultivated for their sweet edible fruits
- the fruit of any of these cacti
Word Origin for tuna
Word Origin and History for tuna
1881, from American Spanish (California) tuna, from Spanish atun, from Arabic tun, from Latin thunnus "tunny" (see tunny).