Tuna

Definition: Tuna

Tuna

Noun

1. Tropical American flat-jointed prickly pear; Jamaica.

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

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

4. New Zealand eel.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tuna" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1843. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Tuna

Animal

Trout, bass, tuna, muskelunge, sailfish, sardine, mackerel.

Crosswords: Tuna

Czech (ton, tunny), Romanian (peal, thunder), Serbo-Croatian (tuna), Swedish (tuna, tuna fish), Turkish (danube).

tuna fish on white bread with mayonnaise, a Tab, and a couple of Twinkies. (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.)

Sorta like, um, tuna. (There's Something About Mary; writing credit: Ed Decter; John J. Strauss)

Bridget Jones, with Sit Up Britain, looking for the tuna! (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding)

They went together like lamb and tuna fish. (Big Daddy; writing credit: Steve Franks)

Bumblebee tuna! Bumblebee tuna! (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls; writing credit: Steve Oedekerk)

See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out (Beautiful Day; performing artist: U2)

Me he de comer esa tuna (1970)

Pasa la tuna (1960)

Tuna Clipper (1949)

Me he de comer esa tuna (1945)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Fresh or Chilled Tuna, Skipjack, and Stripe-Bellied Bonito Excluding Livers and Roes: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• My Cat Tuna (reference)

• Starkist Sensational Tuna (reference)

• The tuna cookbook (reference)

• Tuna (reference)

• Tuna Fish Tuesday (Strange Kid Chronicles , No 2) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Hot Tuna - Acoustic Blues Live at Sweetwater (reference)

• A Tuna Christmas (reference)

• How to Catch Tuna (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Hot Tuna [LIVE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Looking across the entrance to the harbor Wrecked Japanese tuna boat on the reef on the west side of entrance. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Tuna boats in the harbor at Pago Pago. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Tuna Park - a park dedicated to the Tuna Fishing industry. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Tuna clippers at Tuna Harbor as seen from Tuna Park. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Large tuna brought to side of boat for gaffing during pole and line fishing operation. Man in left foreground is throwing bait into waters around the fishing vessel. Credit: Fisheries.

Relatively small tuna being caught during pole and line fishing operations. Credit: Fisheries.

School of yellow fin tuna, hunted and hunter along the Gulf Stream. Thunnus albacares. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

A catch of albacore tuna on the bridge deck. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Wrecked Taiwanese tuna vessel. Still had tons of tuna on board. Thousands of rats had taken over ship with relatively unlimited food supply. Credit: Small World.

On NOAA Ship TOWNSEND CROMWELL measuring yellow-fin tuna. Ca. 1973. Credit: Small World.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

For example, histamine can reach high levels in cheese, some wines, and in certain kinds of fish, particularly tuna and mackerel. (references)

The TUNA System delivers low-level radiofrequency energy through twin needles to burn away a well-defined region of the enlarged prostate. (references)

Business

It is based on high market value species such as tuna, lobster, shrimp, sardine, and other fish species. (references)

Its fishing industry is based on high market value species such as tuna, lobster, shrimp, sardine, and other fish species. (references)

This company imports frozen fruit and frozen tuna fish, which are used as raw materials in their production of canned goods. (references)

Economic History

Philippines

Main export items are fruit, tuna, and meat. (references)

Marshall Islands

Industry: Types--Copra processing, tuna loining. (references)

Seychelles

Major exports are canned tuna, fish, and frozen shrimp. (references)

Political Economy

Palau

Tuna, harvested by foreign-operated fleets, is the dominant export. (references)

COLOMBIA

Approximately 70 percent of Colombian exports to the United States are primary products such as food (mainly coffee, bananas, flowers, tuna, shrimp, and sugar), and fuel (petroleum and coal). (references)

Marshall Islands

Coconut oil and copra exports, a small amount of tourism, import and income taxes, an open ship registry, a tuna preparation plant (locally referred to as tuna loining), ship chandelling, and fishing licensing fees generate limited revenues. (references)

Trade

Haiti

Also excluded are certain watches and watch parts, petroleum and its by-products, prepared or canned tuna, sugar, molasses, syrup, beef, spirits, and footwear. (references)

Jamaica

CBI has provided customs duty-free entry to the United States to qualifying products of Jamaican origin (except textiles, footwear, handbags, luggage, work gloves, leather apparel, tuna fish, petroleum and petroleum products, and watches and watch parts from countries that do not enjoy Most Favored Nation status). (references)

Barbados

In June 2001, Barbados fulfilled the requirements for preferences under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA -- "CBI Enhancement") which provides that additional products will be allowed to enter the United States duty-free, including certain textile products, canned tuna, footwear, handbags, luggage, watches, and petroleum and derivatives. (references)

Worker Rights

Seychelles

In 1999 one of the companies based in the SITZ, Indian Ocean Tuna (IOT), discharged workers who had come from Madagascar. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "tuna": bluefin tuna ♦ O Tuna ♦ Opuntia Tuna ♦ skipjack tuna ♦ tuna fish ♦ tuna fish salad ♦ tuna oil ♦ tuna purse seiner ♦ tuna salad ♦ yellowfin tuna. Additional references.

Beginning with "tuna": tuna-ban, tuna-canners, tuna-dolphin, tuna-fish, tuna-laundering, tuna-lookalike.

Albanian

ton (key, shade, sound, ton, tone, tunny). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سمك التن. (various references)

Basque

atuna (tuna fish). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тон (note, shade, sound, strain, tint, ton, tone, tuna fish, tunny), вид бодлива круша. (various references)

Chinese 

金枪鱼 (Tunas). (various references)

Danish

tunfisk (tuna-fish, tunny), kaktusfigen (Indian fig, prickly pear), indisk figen (Indian fig, prickly pear), atlantisk tun (Atlantic bluefin tuna, Atlantic tuna, bluefin tuna, common tunny, Northern bluefin tuna, tunny), almindelig tun (Atlantic bluefin tuna, Atlantic tuna, bluefin tuna, common tunny, Northern bluefin tuna, tunny). (various references)

Dutch

tonijn (tuna-fish, tunny). (various references)

Esperanto

tinuso (tuna-fish, tunny). (various references)

Farsi 

ماهی تونایاتون(tunafish=)(ج.ش.). (various references)

Finnish

tonnikala (tunny), viikunaopuntia (Indian fig, prickly pear), viikunakaktus (barbary fig tree, Indian fig, Indian fig tree, nopal, prickly pear, prickly pear cactus). (various references)

French

thon (tuna-fish, tunny). (various references)

Galician

bonito (tuna fish). (various references)

German

Thunfisch (tuna fish, tuna-fish, tunny). (various references)

Greek 

σύκο κάκτου (Indian fig, prickly pear), σύκο των Ινδιών (Indian fig, prickly pear), φραγκόσυκο (prickly pear), τόνοσ (accent, ictus, intonation, pitch, strain, stress, ton, tonality, tone), τόνος (accent, stress, ton, tone, tunny). (various references)

Hungarian

tonhal (tunny). (various references)

Italian

tonno (tuna-fish, tunny). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鮪 (tunny), チャン語 (Chinese language, tuba, tube, tulip, tuner, tuning, Turing, Turing machine, Turing's test, tutor, tutorial, Zurich), ツェツェ� � (short speech at a dinner, statement, table, table center, table charge, table cloth, table cover, table manners, table talk, table tennis, table top, table wine, tablespoon, take back, takeaway, take-off, takeout, take-over, take-over bid, take-over zone, tape, taper, taping, taste, thesis, thulium, tree, tsetse fly, Tutankamen, two-handed sword). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

チューナ (tuner), ツナ , まぐろ (tunny). (various references)

Korean 

참치 (Tunas). (various references)

Papiamen

tunafesh (tuna-fish, tunny). (various references)

Pig Latin

unatay

Portuguese

atum (tuna-fish, tunny). (various references)

Russian 

тунец (tuna fish, tunny). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tunjevina, tunj (tunny), tuna. (various references)

Spanish

atún (tuna-fish, tunny). (various references)

Swedish

tonfisk (tunny). (various references)

Turkish

ton balığı (tuna fish, tunny). (various references)

Ukrainian

тунець (tunny). (various references)

Opuntia ficus-indica, thunnus, Thunnus thynnus, Thunnus thynnus(Linnaeus,1758). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tuna": tunabilities, tunability, tunable, tunableness, tunablenesses, tunably, tunas. (additional references)

Words containing "tuna": fortunate, fortunately, fortunateness, fortunatenesses, importunate, importunately, importunateness, importunatenesses, unfortunate, unfortunately, unfortunates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tuna" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: auna, dunav, Ituna, Ituni, juna, kunna, shunna, Tanabu, tanac, tauno, tena, Tenax, tenea, tenra, Thuan, Thuja, thune, tiana, tinka, Tiuna, Toan, tona, tonaw, tonay, tonfa, toni, tonna, tonno, Torna, Trnka, Tsuang, Tsuda, Tsunga, tua, tuan, Tuenda, tuina, tumn, tunai, tunal, tunan, tunar, tunc, tund, tuney, tuni, tunix, tunnal, tuno, tuns, tunt, tura, turnan, tuta, Tuuta, tuva, tuvan, tuyaux, una, unna, utn, utna, utne, Utonai, zuna. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: aunt.

-1 letter: ant, nut, tan, tau, tun, uta.

-2 letters: an, at, na, nu, ta, un, ut.

+1 letter: aunts, aunty, daunt, gaunt, haunt, jaunt, junta, quant, tabun, taunt, tunas, unapt, unhat, vaunt.

+2 letters: amount, antrum, attune, auntie, auntly, autumn, avaunt, butane, cantus, chaunt, daunts, eluant, flaunt, haunts, jaunts, jaunty, juntas, jurant, lunate, manitu, mantua, mutant, nature, naught, nautch, nougat, numbat, nutant, nutate, nutria, outman, outran, peanut, quaint, quanta, quants, quinta, santur, sultan, suntan, tabuns, tanuki, taunts, tauten, toucan, truant, tundra, tunica, turban, unhats, unseat, untack, untame, vaunts, vaunty, walnut.