tuna, Anguilla sucklandii
(noun) New Zealand eel
tuna, tunny
(noun) any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters
tuna, tuna fish, tunny
(noun) important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks
tuna, Opuntia tuna
(noun) tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica
Source: WordNet® 3.1
tuna (countable and uncountable, plural tuna or tunas)
Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
The edible flesh of the tuna.
• tuna fish, tunny
tuna (plural tunas)
The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia.
The fruit of the cactus.
• -naut, aunt, naut., tuan
Tuna
(Maori mythology) An eel-god, the son of Manga-wai-roa.
• -naut, aunt, naut., tuan
Source: Wiktionary
Tu"na, n. (Bot.)
Definition: The Opuntia Tuna. See Prickly pear, under Prickly.
Tu"na, n. Etym: [Cf. Tunny.] (Zoöl.) (a) The tunny. (b) The bonito, 2.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
