tonno

Definitions of tonno
  1. noun
    New Zealand eel
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    type of:
    anguilla
    voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
  2. noun
    any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters
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    types:
    alalonga, alalunga
    large pelagic tuna the source of most canned tuna; reaches 93 pounds and has long pectoral fins; found worldwide in tropical and temperate waters
  3. noun
    important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks
  4. noun
    tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica
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    type of:
    fico d'India, ficodindia
    cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock
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