Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of scombroid fishes, of the open seas, which attain a great size.
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- noun tunas: warm-blooded fishes
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C.: _Magnus thunnus, is scilicet qui a nostris_ Ton _vocatur ... dicitur Italis Tarentella, a_ Tarentino, _unde advehitur, sinu_.”
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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