| 单词 | tuna |
| 释义 | tuna (once / 3448 pages) 1n 2n 3n WORD FAMILY tuna: tunas USAGE EXAMPLESPregnant women are generally advised to limit their consumption of certain types of fish like swordfish and tuna because they contain mercury. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) “It was still too much tuna,” the comedian Nick Kroll said. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) Think black bean and veggie omelets, tuna salad with white beans, or chicken cacciatore with lentils. Time(Dec 14, 2016) 1 1n important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks Syn|Hypo|Hyper tuna fish, tunny albacore relatively small tuna with choice white flesh; major source of canned tuna bonitoflesh of mostly Pacific food fishes of the genus Sarda of the family Scombridae; related to but smaller than tuna bluefin, bluefin tunaflesh of very large tuna saltwater fish flesh of fish from the sea used as food 2n any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper tunny Thunnus alalunga, albacore, long-fin tunny large pelagic tuna the source of most canned tuna; reaches 93 pounds and has long pectoral fins; found worldwide in tropical and temperate waters Thunnus thynnus, bluefin, bluefin tuna, horse mackerellargest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics Thunnus albacares, yellowfin, yellowfin tunamay reach 400 pounds; worldwide in tropics food fish any fish used for food by human beings scombroid, scombroid fishimportant marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters n New Zealand eel 3Syn|Hyper Anguilla sucklandii eel voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins n tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica Syn|Hyper Opuntia tuna prickly pear, prickly pear cactus cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock |
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