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Tuna  n.  (Bot.) The Opuntia Tuna. See Prickly pear, under Prickly.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Tuna" Quotes from Famous Books



... But the cry "Thalassa" was denied us. Eventually we turned back, and tried keeping the hill on the right. This was as perplexing as keeping it on the left had been. A pair of famished explorers, hungry enough to eat canned tuna-fish and crackers with relish, reached a little town inland from Mandelieu about seven o'clock that night with no clear knowledge of from where ...
— Riviera Towns • Herbert Adams Gibbons

... large rod as better able to hold off a fish which runs under the boat; I should personally prefer a short, stiff, steel-centred rod such as Hardy's 12ft. Murdoch—a type of rod preferred by the Americans for yellow tail and tuna fishing. This kind of rod is much handier in a ...
— Fishing in British Columbia - With a Chapter on Tuna Fishing at Santa Catalina • Thomas Wilson Lambert

... leagues from the Canaries the ships began to encounter patches of floating yellow-green sea-weed, which grew more numerous until the fleet was sailing in a vast level expanse of green like an ocean meadow. Tuna fish played in the waters; on one of the patches of floating weed rested a live crab. A white tropical bird of a kind never known to sleep upon the sea came flying toward them, alighting for a moment in the rigging. The owners of the Pinta predicted that they would all ...
— Days of the Discoverers • L. Lamprey



Words linked to "Tuna" :   long-fin tunny, scombroid, Thunnus albacares, horse mackerel, yellowfin, bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus, tuna fish, food fish, prickly pear, bonito, tuna salad, saltwater fish, albacore, Thunnus, bluefin, prickly pear cactus



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