tuna

[US]/'tjuːnə/
[UK]/'tunə/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a type of saltwater fish, also known as tuna

Phrases & Collocations

tuna sandwich

canned tuna

fresh tuna

tuna salad

bluefin tuna

tuna fish

Example Sentences

What is it like to be a tuna fisherman?.

yellowfin tuna has been overfished.

angling for tuna in turbulent tidal races.

I don’t like eating tins of tuna fish.

a red pepper filled with tuna salad.

In one case a participant tasted tuna when she was trying to remember the word 'castanet'.

Lunch: 1 cup Cottage Cheese or Tuna, 5 Saltine Crackers, Black Coffee or Tea (Sweet &Low or Equal) or Water.

trap fishing Fish capture by means of confining in enclosed spaces, e.g. in traps, pots, pound nets, tuna traps, fyke nets, etc.

In longline fishing, which targets fish such as tuna, swordfish and billfish, boats trail long lines bearing as many as 2500 baited hooks.

to the biologist, the tuna is a marvel of hydrodynamic engineering, its body packed with modifications that enable it to outeat, outgrow, outswim, outdive, and outmigrate any other fish in the sea;

Extruded feed for marine fish: Turbot, flounder, salmon, tuna, sea-bream, swellfish, yellow crock, sea bass, rockfish, red drum, etc.

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