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TUNA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
New Zealand eel
Synonyms:
Anguilla sucklandii; tuna
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("tuna" is a kind of...):
eel (voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters
Synonyms:
tuna; tunny
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("tuna" is a kind of...):
food fish (any fish used for food by human beings)
scombroid; scombroid fish (important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters)
Meronyms (parts of "tuna"):
tuna; tuna fish; tunny (important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tuna"):
albacore; long-fin tunny; Thunnus alalunga (large pelagic tuna the source of most canned tuna; reaches 93 pounds and has long pectoral fins; found worldwide in tropical and temperate waters)
bluefin; bluefin tuna; horse mackerel; Thunnus thynnus (largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics)
Thunnus albacares; yellowfin; yellowfin tuna (may reach 400 pounds; worldwide in tropics)
Holonyms ("tuna" is a member of...):
genus Thunnus; Thunnus (tunas: warm-blooded fishes)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks
Synonyms:
tuna; tuna fish; tunny
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("tuna" is a kind of...):
saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tuna"):
albacore (relatively small tuna with choice white flesh; major source of canned tuna)
bonito (flesh of mostly Pacific food fishes of the genus Sarda of the family Scombridae; related to but smaller than tuna)
bluefin; bluefin tuna (flesh of very large tuna)
Holonyms ("tuna" is a part of...):
tuna; tunny (any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica
Synonyms:
Opuntia tuna; tuna
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("tuna" is a kind of...):
prickly pear; prickly pear cactus (cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock)
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