Meaning of Tuna | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
   countable, uncountable
2. The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia.
3. Various towns and (historical) former settlements in Sweden.
4. A god, considered the son of Manga-wai-roa and source of eels.
5. The edible flesh of the tuna.
   countable, uncountable
6. The fruit of the cactus.

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Examples

“Tuna was carried down by the flood; and when Maui saw him in the net he stretched forth his arm and with a blow of his stone axe smote Tuna and cut off his head, and it and the tail fell into the ocean. ... The head became fish, and the tail became the koiro (ngoiro—conger-eel).”

“THE TUNA OR PRICKLY PEAR AS A FOOD FOR MAN”

“Tuna was carried down by the flood; and when Maui saw him in the net he stretched forth his arm and with a blow of his stone axe smote Tuna and cut off his head, and it and the tail fell into the ocean. [...] The head became fish, and the tail became the koiro (ngoiro—conger-eel).”

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