tunaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From American Spanish alteration of the Spanish atún, from Arabic تُنّ‎ (tunn, “tuna”) from Latin thunnus, itself from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos), from θύνω (thúnō), "I rush, dart along"). Doublet of tonno.^[1][2]

名詞

tuna (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 tuna または tunas)

1. Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
   • 1887, John White, The Ancient History of the Maori, 84:

     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).

2. The edible flesh of the tuna.

同意語

• tuna fish, tunny

派生語

• ahi tuna (Thunnus albacares, Thunnus obesus)
• yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares)
• albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga)
• Allison tuna (Thunnus albacares)
• bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus)
• blackfin tuna (Thunnus atlanticus)
• bluefin tuna (Thunnus spp.)
• bullet tuna (Auxis rochei)
• dogtooth tuna (Gymnosarda unicolor)
• frigate tuna (Auxis thazard)
• great tuna (Thunnus thynnus)
• leaping tuna (Thunnus thynnus)
• little tuna (Euthynnus alletteratus)
• longfin tuna, long-finned tuna (Thunnus alalunga)
• mackerel tuna (Auxis thazard)
• skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis)
• striped tuna (Katsuwonus spp. et al.)
• white tuna (Thunnus alalunga, Lepidocybium flavobrunneum)
• yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares)
• yellowtail tuna (Seriola quinqueradiata)

参照

• tuna on Wikipedia.
• Thunnus on Wikispecies.
• tuna at OneLook Dictionary Search

語源 2

From Taíno.

名詞

tuna (複数形 tunas)

1. The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia.
2. The fruit of the cactus.

派生語

• Halimeda tuna

参考

• xoconostle

Further reading

• Opuntia on Wikipedia.
• Opuntia on Wikispecies.
• Opuntia on Wikimedia Commons.

アナグラム

• -naut, aunt, naut., tuan