noun
definition
Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
definition
The edible flesh of the tuna.
Examples of tuna in a Sentence
Sarah came home as she was putting the tuna salad into the refrigerator.
Maybe it was the mercury in the tuna she ate or the excessive amounts of chocolate.
Tuna are much eaten under the name of prickly pears, and are greatly esteemed for their cooling properties.
The two fixed lunch—a tuna salad sandwich for Dean and a bowl of soup for Fred.
Weller sat back and took another chaw from his tuna salad sandwich, brushing a few crumbs from his chin.
British An advance was made to Tuna, where part of the Armed 1904.
Ideally this is a steak cut from a tuna loin.
Plantations of the nopal and the tuna, which are called nopaleries, are established for the purpose of rearing this insect, the Coccus Cacti, and these often contain as many as 50,000 plants.
A children's menu is available with smaller portions of these dishes, and there is even a small selection of sushi items, including vegetable rolls, tuna rolls and smoked eel rolls.
For instance, hamachi (yelowfin tuna) belly served nigiri style is taken to another level, with a yuzu soy marinated sea urchin pairing.
The menu features a tapas, lunch and dinner menu whose selections include garden salads, seafood, beef and chicken tapas, and authentic entrée selections such as paella, red snapper, tuna, skirt steak, filet mignon and suckled pig.
Guests can order a filet mignon, sauteed salmon, prime strip steak, prime rib, shrimp scampi and sesame seared tuna.
Guests can choose from a variety of foods, including butternut squash, roasted corn chowder, tuna with wasabi and streamed mussels and red curry.
Both locations offer appetizers, including bacon-wrapped scallops, deep fried tofu and broiled tuna tataki.
The menu features double cheeseburgers, quarter-pound burgers, regular burgers and cheeseburgers, grilled cheese, tuna on a bun, all beef franks and butterfly shrimp.
The two fixed lunch—a tuna salad sandwich for Dean and a bowl of soup for Fred.
Longline fishing for southern bluefin tuna also affects wandering albatrosses breeding on the Crozet Islands in the southern Indian Ocean.
We started off with a small appetizer of marinated tuna with spicy couscous.
I followed with Fish kebab (£ 10.95) - a bumper grilled brochette of tuna, dab, rockfish and turbot.
Oily fish includes fresh tuna (not canned tuna, which does not count as oily fish ), mackerel, sardines and trout.
Its greatest claim to fame is as the site of the world's largest tuna cannery.
There is also the Mauritian tuna canning industry, a success story.
I opted for tuna carpaccio with pepper and rocket salad from the à la carte menu.
A hot ciabatta filled with tuna and melted cheese. £ 4.75 West country burger with bacon and cheese.
Many foods especially salmon, tuna, and beef contain some creatine.
One of my guests gushed over his pan-seared veal filet, served cold, and pancaked under a tangy white tuna sauce.
Make sure you cook fresh tuna all the way through to prevent food poisoning.
Sprinkle the tuna with minced ginger, salt and pepper and drizzle the olive oil over the tuna.
Sunshine, oily fish (tuna, salmon, sardines, mackerel ), fortified margarines.
I'll prepare a bap, maybe a tuna mayo.
There is a good portion of tuna mayonnaise in this sandwich.
I've done baking and made oatcakes and baked potatoes with tuna mayonnaise.
Dinner comes as feta bake, tuna pasta and potato salad and it is wonderful.
You could also try this recipe with oily fish like salmon or tuna, with a little more curry powder to spice things up.
We also have red snapper, grouper, yellow fin tuna and pork which is very tasty.
Dearest Jo, About 10 days ago, I put a tuna sandwich in a sad little plastic box to take to work.
Tuna fishermen using purse seines may encircle dolphins also.
We saw some big tuna and there were mixed reports about shark sightings.
Meanwhile, grill or sear the tuna steak in a pan.
I chose a chargrilled tuna steak (£ 11.50 ), which came with a small salad.
Limit your weekly intake of tuna to two tuna steaks or four medium-sized cans of tuna.
I like to take whatever meat or fish I have purchased - salmon or tuna, pork tenderloin, chicken breasts or beef.
Try other tasty toppings with your cheese like flaked tuna and sweetcorn, mushrooms, and diced lean ham or turkey.
The Chateaubriand won the main course round closely followed by the seared tuna with octopus.
The drift net had been set at 5 meters in waters more than 2000 meters deep to catch tuna.
Such species are not likely to be found in canned tuna marketed in the EU.
Making a decision For the main course I ' ll have grilled tuna.
In Hawaii, raw tuna, called by the Japanese name, sashimi, is very popular.
The report blamed soaring demand for bluefin tuna on the growth of sushi bars in recent years.
Wahoo season runs November through March; yellowfin tuna season follows in spring months.