Tunnelstern
n.
The chiefly British equivalent of tuna ; any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the Mackerel family, especially the common or great tunny ( Thunnus thynnus syn. Albacora thynnus , formerly Orcynus 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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