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UK
/tjˈuːnɐ/
]
[ US /ˈtjunə, ˈtunə/ ]
[ US /ˈtjunə, ˈtunə/ ]
NOUN
- any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters
- important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks
- tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica
- New Zealand eel
How To Use tuna In A Sentence
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- Instead of asking the fortunate few, why doesn't Ted asked the gifted masses of state employees to do a little giveback? We're! Number! 5! (Jack Bog's Blog)
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- Fortunately, seven unaired episodes will give fans something to really dive into.
- Among profuse schools of trevallies and barracuda, huge tunas and a host of sharks cruise the sheer wall.
- Fortunately, actual working scientists rarely bother with such niceties - so they proceed to search for Neptune, quarks and so on.
- I was haunted by the beauty of the landscape all about, of the natural ferneries then disappearing, and of the domed forest-trees on the slopes, and was fortunate in meeting a gentleman intent on preserving in art the beauties of his country. Sailing Alone Around the World
- Brown bags of pasta stand ready to be combined with cans of Italian tuna, homemade pickled vegetables, home-canned tomato sauce, and jars of his favorite imported red peppers.
- We may look like lobsters, or tuna fish, but that is purely coincidental. Times, Sunday Times
- The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind