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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In entomology, a remarkable genus of hymenopterous insects, typical of the family Thynnidæ. The species are Australian.
- noun In ichthyology, a genus of scombroid fishes, so named by Cuvier in 1817; the tunnies. Being preoccupied in entomology, the name was changed by Cuvier in 1829 to Orcynus. See cut under
albacore .
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Examples
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Description: Bluefish tuna (Thunnus thynnus) is an symbol of marine conversation.
Biodiversity 100: actions for Asia Guillaume Chapron 2010
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The high-end chain sells a tremendous amount of bluefin tuna, much of which is critically endangered Northern bluefin (Thunnus thynnus) from the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
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Additional immigrants from the south during summer include short-finned squid, fish such as mackerel and bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus), and birds such as greater shearwater (Puffinus gravis) and sooty shearwater (P. griseus).
Fisheries and aquaculture in the Newfoundland and Labrador Seas, Northeastern Canada 2009
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WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Tom Strickland, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, announced that the United States supports a proposal submitted by the principality of Monaco to list the Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in Appendix I of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES).
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The diversity of fish species includes some of the most economically significant species such as Thunnus thynnus (tuna), Tetrapturus albidus (white marlin), Makaira indica (black marlin) and Istiophorus albicans (billfish).
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Thunnus thynnus (northern); T. maccoyii (southern)
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The famous pickle of the ancients, called garum, was made of the gills and blood of the tunny, or thynnus.
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Thunnus thynnus (northern); T. maccoyii (southern)
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The word commonly rendered whales (cetos vel cete) might in my judgment be not improperly translated thynnus or tunny fish, as corresponding with the Hebrew word thaninim.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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-- There are several giants of the sea which are regularly pursued by American anglers, chief among them being the tarpon (_Tarpon atlanticus_) and the tuna or tunny (Thunnus thynnus), which have been taken on rod and line up to 223 lb and 251 lb respectively.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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"After having prescribed an application of oil to the count's leg, he expressed his sorrow for the misadventure, which he openly ascribed to want of taste and prudence in the painter, who did not think proper to return, and make an apology in person; and protested that there was nothing in the fowls which could give offence to a sensible nose, the stuffing being a mixture of pepper, lovage, and assafoetida, and the sauce consisting of wine and herring-pickle, which he had used instead of the celebrated garum of the Romans; that famous pickle having been prepared sometimes of the scombri, which were a sort of tunny-fish, and sometimes of the silurus, or shad-fish: nay, he observed that there was a third kind, called garum haemation, made of the guts, gills, and blood of the thynnus."
— Smollett, Peregrine Pickle
March 1, 2022