tuna

English Thesaurus

1. New Zealand eel (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	eel,
definition	:	voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins (noun.animal)

2. any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	food fish,
definition	:	any fish used for food by human beings (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	scombroid, scombroid fish,
definition	:	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 (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	albacore, long-fin tunny, thunnus alalunga,
definition	:	large pelagic tuna the source of most canned tuna; reaches 93 pounds and has long pectoral fins; found worldwide in tropical and temperate waters (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	bluefin, bluefin tuna, horse mackerel, thunnus thynnus,
definition	:	largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	thunnus albacares, yellowfin, yellowfin tuna,
definition	:	may reach 400 pounds; worldwide in tropics (noun.animal)

part holonym	:	tuna, tuna fish, tunny,
definition	:	important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks (noun.food)

member meronym	:	genus thunnus, thunnus,
definition	:	tunas: warm-blooded fishes (noun.animal)

3. important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks (noun.food)

hypernym	:	saltwater fish,
definition	:	flesh of fish from the sea used as food (noun.food)

hyponym	:	albacore,
definition	:	relatively small tuna with choice white flesh; major source of canned tuna (noun.food)

hyponym	:	bonito,
definition	:	flesh of mostly Pacific food fishes of the genus Sarda of the family Scombridae; related to but smaller than tuna (noun.food)

hyponym	:	bluefin, bluefin tuna,
definition	:	flesh of very large tuna (noun.food)

part meronym	:	tuna, tunny,
definition	:	any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters (noun.animal)

4. tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	prickly pear, prickly pear cactus,
definition	:	cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock (noun.plant)

sinonim