Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tuna

4 senses of tuna

Sense 1
tuna, Opuntia tuna -- (tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica)
       => 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)

Sense 2
tuna, tuna fish, tunny -- (important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks)
       => saltwater fish -- (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)

Sense 3
tuna, tunny -- (any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters)
       => scombroid, scombroid fish -- (important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters)
       => food fish -- (any fish used for food by human beings)

Sense 4
tuna, Anguilla sucklandii -- (New Zealand eel)
       => eel -- (voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins)