(n.) Any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the Mackerel family, especially the common or great tunny (Orcynus / 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their target was a system known as Tunny, which carried messages between Hitler and members of his high command, as well as Mussolini.
(2) "The club have received a bid from Wolfsburg but we're keen to keep Tunny if we can," Pulis said.
(3) An investigation of five kinds of sea-fishes--of mackerel, herring, cod, tunny, and plaice--that are most frequently put on the market showed that a permitted value up to 1 mg As per 1 kg of fish meat was found only in 24.0% of mackerel, 9.5% of herring, 33.4% of cod, 57.0% of plaice and 0.0% of tunny.
(4) The total animal population percentage composition, found during period May-August 1979 on tunny-fishing coco-fibres nets in Camogli (Genoa), has been valued in relation to the depth.
(5) Consumption of plaice, pighvar and tunny resulted in a 2-fold increase, and consumption of mussels produced a 6-fold increase in the urinary level of hydride-generating arsenic compounds.
(6) We worked for three years on Tunny material and were breaking – at a conservative estimate – just under 64,000 top-line messages."
(7) The Tunny traffic was produced by a Lorenz CZ cryptography machine which the Bletchley Park mathematicians were able to replicate without ever seeing it.
(8) The major mutagens produced in the bonito, tunny and mackerel meats heated without charring at 100 degrees C for 48 h and at 220 degrees C for 15 min were found to be MeIQx and 4,8-DiMeIQx.
(9) The values of a majority of studied sea-fish samples ranged from 1 to 2 mg As per 1 kg: 52% of mackerel, 63.5% of herring, 66.6% of cod, 43% of tunny, 28% of plaice.