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Tuna
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- 1 Various towns and (historical) former settlements in Sweden.
- 2 A god, considered the son of Manga-wai-roa and source of eels.
"Tuna was carried down by the flood; and when Maui saw him in the net he stretched forth his arm and with a blow of his stone axe smote Tuna and cut off his head, and it and the tail fell into the ocean. [...] The head became fish, and the tail became the koiro (ngoiro—conger-eel)."
- 1 Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae. countable, uncountable
"Tuna was carried down by the flood; and when Maui saw him in the net he stretched forth his arm and with a blow of his stone axe smote Tuna and cut off his head, and it and the tail fell into the ocean. ... The head became fish, and the tail became the koiro (ngoiro—conger-eel)."
- 2 The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia.
- 3 New Zealand eel wordnet
- 4 The edible flesh of the tuna. countable, uncountable
- 5 The fruit of the cactus.
"THE TUNA OR PRICKLY PEAR AS A FOOD FOR MAN"
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- 6 any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters wordnet
- 7 important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks wordnet
- 8 tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica wordnet
Etymology
From American Spanish tuna, alteration of Spanish atún, from Arabic اَلتُّنّ (at-tunn, “tuna”), from Latin thunnus, itself from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos). Possibly in the sense of "darter" from thynein "to dart along". Doublet of tonno.
From Taíno.
From Swedish Tuna, from Old Norse Tuna, from tún (“enclosure, enclosed area, settlement”).
From Māori Tuna.
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