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Tunny
Tunny Tun"ny (t[u^]n"n[y^]), n.; pl. Tunnies. [L. thunnus, thynnus, Gr. qy`nnos, qy^nos: cf. It. tonno, F. & Pr. thon.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the Mackerel family, especially the common or great tunny (Orcynus or Albacora thynnus) native of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It sometimes weighs a thousand pounds or more, and is extensively caught in the Mediterranean. On the American coast it is called horse mackerel. See Illust. of Horse mackerel, under Horse. [Written also thynny.] Note: The little tunny (Gymnosarda alletterata) of the Mediterranean and North Atlantic, and the long-finned tunny, or albicore (see Albicore), are related species of smaller size.

Meaning of Tunny from wikipedia

- German teleprinter traffic as Fish, dubbed the machine and its traffic Tunny (meaning tunafish) and deduced its logical structure three years before...
- Tunny may refer to: Tuna Tunny cipher Either of the United States submarines which has been called USS Tunny A character in the musical American Idiot...
- The little tunny (Euthynnus alletteratus) is the most common tuna in the Atlantic Ocean. It is found in warm temperate and tropical waters of the Atlantic...
- A tuna (also called tunny) is a sal****er fish that belongs to the tribe Thunnini, a subgrouping of the Scombridae (mackerel) family. The Thunnini comprise...
- The USS Tunny (SS/SSG/APSS/LPSS-282) was a Gato-cl**** submarine which saw service in World War II and in the Vietnam War. Tunny received nine battle stars...
- States Navy have been named USS Tunny, for the tunny, any of several oceanic fishes resembling the mackerel. USS Tunny (SS-282), a Gato-cl**** submarine...
- Tunny, 11B The Tunny Cipher Machine, p. 6. Gannon 2007, pp. 150, 151. Good 1993, p. 153. Good, Michie & Timms 1945, 1 Introduction: 11 German Tunny,...
- bluefin tuna [for individuals exceeding 150 kg (330 lb)], and formerly as the tunny. Atlantic bluefins are native to both the western and eastern Atlantic Ocean...
- album, centres on three disaffected young men, Johnny, Will and Tunny. Johnny and Tunny flee a stifling suburban lifestyle and parental restrictions, while...
- USS Tunny (SSN-682), a Sturgeon-cl**** attack submarine, was the second submarine of the United States Navy to be named for the tunny, any of several oceanic...
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