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noun (plural tuna or tunas)
  1. any of several species of fish, of the genus Thunnus, in the family Scombridae.
  2. the edible flesh of the tuna
  3. a type of cactus native to Mexico
  4. the fruit of the cactus
Translations: 
  • Dutch: tonijn
  • French: thon
  • German: Thunfisch
  • Italian: tonno
    (trans-mid)
  • Spanish: atíºn
Etymology: American Spanish alteration of the Spanish atín, modified from the Arabic tÅn, from the Latin thunnus, from the Greek thynnos.


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