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(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.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Tunny'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​t/tunny.html. 1828.
 
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