tunny

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. See tuna¹.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A scombroid fish of the genus Orcynus, as O. thynnus. The germon, orl ong-finned tunny, is O. germo or alalonga. (See cut under albacore.) The true tunny of the Mediterranean and Atlantic waters has been the object of an important fishery, systematically conducted from remote antiquity, as by the Phenicians, to the present day. It is one of the largest food-flshes, growing to a length of 10 feet, and acquiring a weight of one thousand pounds or more. It is a near relative of the bonito and albacore, but is distinguished from the latter by the much shorter pectoral fins; the body is deepest about the middle, whence it tapers rapidly to a slender caudal peduncle; there are eight or nine short separate finlets behind the dorsal and anal fins; the dorsals are two, of which the first rises high in front; the caudal fin is very short, but its upper and under lobes extend high and low. The color is dark-bluish above, and below grayish, irregularly silvery. The tunny is a fish of the high seas, bnt periodically wanders in large shoals coastwise. The flesh is eaten fresh, or preserved in salt or in oil.

Wiktionary

1. n. Tuna.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.) The chiefly British equivalent of tuna; any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the Mackerel family, especially the common or great tunny (Thunnus thynnus syn. Albacora thynnus, formerly Orcynus thynnus) native of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It sometimes weighs a thousand pounds or more, and is extensively caught in the Mediterranean. On the American coast it is called horse mackerel. See Illust. of Horse mackerel, under horse.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters
2. n. important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks