tuna

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.

   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. 2
   noun

   The fruit of the cactus.

   THE TUNA OR PRICKLY PEAR AS A FOOD FOR MAN

3. 3
   name

   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).

4. 4
   noun

   New Zealand eel

5. 5
   noun

   any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus

6. 6
   noun

   important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae

7. 7
   noun

   tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica

8. 8
   noun

   The edible flesh of the tuna.

Etymology

Etymology tree Arabic اَلْ (al-) Phoenicianbor. Ancient Greek θῠ́ννος (thŭ́nnos)bor. Latin thunnusbor. Arabic تُنّ (tunn) Arabic اَلتُّنّ (at-tunn) Andalusian Arabicbor. Old Spanish atun Spanish atúnder. United States Spanish tunabor. English tuna Borrowed from United States 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.