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Tunny   /tˈəni/   Listen
Tunny

noun
(pl. tunnies)  (Written also thynny)
1.
Important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks.  Synonyms: tuna, tuna fish.
2.
Any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters.  Synonym: tuna.



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"Tunny" Quotes from Famous Books



... rough communities, blunders endangering life are immediately punished by physical chastisement,—not in anger, but on traditional principle. Once I witnessed at a fishing-settlement, a chastisement of this kind. Men were killing tunny in the surf; the work was bloody and dangerous; and in the midst of the excitement, one of the fishermen struck his killing-spike into the head of a boy. Everybody knew that it was a pure accident; but accidents involving danger to life are rudely dealt with, ...
— Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation • Lafcadio Hearn

... it from summer to winter at any moment, by ascending the mountains. The earth furnishes wine, oil, figs, oranges, and every production of the garden, in every season. The sea yields lobsters, crabs, oysters, tunny, sardines, anchovies, &c. Ortolans sell, at this time, at thirty sous, equal to one shilling sterling, the dozen. At this season, they must be fattened. Through the whole of my route from Marseilles, I observe they plant a great deal of cane or reed, which ...
— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson

... bosom exist still double the quantity of animal species that abound in other seas, although less numerous. The tunny fish, playful lambs of the blue pasture lands, were gamboling over its surface or passing in schools under the furrows of the waves. Men were setting netted traps for them along the coasts of Spain and ...
— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez



Words linked to "Tunny" :   saltwater fish, Thunnus albacares, bonito, Thunnus, food fish, genus Thunnus, Thunnus alalunga, horse mackerel, scombroid fish, albacore, yellowfin, Thunnus thynnus, scombroid, bluefin, yellowfin tuna, bluefin tuna



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