tuna

Meaning

Noun

• Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
• The edible flesh of the tuna.
• The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia.
• The fruit of the cactus.

Related

Similar words

• tuna fish, tunny

Origin

• From American Spanish alteration of the Spanish atún, from Arabic تُنّ from Latin thunnus, itself from Ancient Greek θύννος, from θύνω, "I rush, dart along").
• From Taíno.