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Definition of Tunny

1. Noun. Important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks.

2. Noun. Any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters.

Definition of Tunny

1. n. Any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the Mackerel family, especially the common or great tunny (Orcynus or Albacora 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.

Definition of Tunny

1. Noun. Tuna. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tunny

1. a tuna [n -NIES] - See also: tuna

Medical Definition of Tunny

1. Origin: L. Thunnus, thynnus, Gr,: cf. It. Tonno, F. & Pr. Thon. Any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the Mackerel family, especially the common or great tunny (Orcynus or Albacora 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. Alternative forms: thynny. The little tunny (Gymnosarda alletterata) of the Mediterranean and North Atlantic, and the long-finned tunny, or albicore (see Albicore), are related species of smaller size. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tunny

tunnelers tunneling tunneling effect tunnelings tunnelled tunneller tunnellers tunnellike tunnelling tunnellings

tunnelly tunnels tunnies tunning tunnings tunny (current term) tuns tuny tupaia tupaiid

tupaiidae tupaiids tupal tupek tupeks tupelo tupelo family tupelo tree tupelos

Literary usage of Tunny

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Selections from Strabo: With an Introduction on Strabo's Life and Works by Strabo, Henry Fanshawe Tozer (1893)
"The tunny was formerly, and is to sorre extent at the present day, an important element of food in the Mediterranean. With regard to the migration of these ..."

2. The Commercial Products of the Sea: Or, Marine Contributions to Food by Peter Lund Simmonds (1879)
"THE tunny FISHERY. tunny fishery in the Mediterranean—Size the fish attains—Description of a " madrague "—Statistics of the Italian fishery—Definition of ..."

3. Ocean World: A Description of the Sea & Its Living Inhabitants by Louis Figuier (1869)
"The tunny-fishing presents a very sad spectacle at this its last stage; ... The flesh of the tunny is much esteemed, being firm and wholesome. ..."

4. The Pantropheon, Or, History of Food, and Its Preparation, from the Earliest by Alexis Soyer (1853)
"Aristotle does not mention this fish ; but his compatriots esteemed highly the turbots of Attica.100 tunny. The Greeks greatly praised the tunny fish of ..."

5. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1855)
"Professor Vogt, who has given a most animated description of the tunny fishery, ... The flesh of the tunny is highly prized by the inhabitants of the ..."

6. Aesop and Hyssop by William Ellery Leonard (1912)
"A tunny, once by Dolphin rude Around and round the bay pursued, ... Revenge is sweet, aye even in death— That's what the heathen tunny saith. ..."

7. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine, Taylor and Francis (1861)
"Capture of the Long-finned tunny on the Chesil Beach. By W. THOMPSON, Esq. To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. GENTLEMEN, — On the 13th instant ..."

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