Tuna vs. Kingfish

Tuna and Kingfish Definitions
Tuna
Any of various often large scombroid marine food and game fishes of the genus Thunnus and related genera, several of which, including albacore and skipjack tuna, are commercially important sources of canned fish. Also called tunny.
Kingfish
Any of several food and game fishes of the family Sciaenidae, especially of the genus Menticirrhus, found in western Atlantic waters.
Tuna
Any of several related fishes, such as the bonito.
Kingfish
Any of various carangid fishes.
Tuna
The edible flesh of tuna, often canned or processed. Also called tuna fish.
Kingfish
See king mackerel.
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Tuna
Any of several prickly pears, especially O. ficus-indica, widely cultivated for its edible red fruit.
Kingfish
(Informal) A person in a position of uncontested authority or influence, especially a powerful political leader.
Tuna
The edible fruit of any of these cacti. Also called cactus pear.
Kingfish
Any of several food fishes of the genus Menticirrhus from the Atlantic; kingcroakers.
Tuna
Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
Kingfish
Other Atlantic fish
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Tuna
The edible flesh of the tuna.
Kingfish
Opah (Lampris guttatus), of the United Kingdom
Tuna
The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia.
Kingfish
White croaker (Genyonemus lineatus), of the United Kingdom
Tuna
The fruit of the cactus.
Kingfish
Wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri), of Barbados
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Tuna
The Opuntia Tuna. See Prickly pear, under Prickly.
Kingfish
King mackerel (Scomberomorus cavalla)
Tuna
Any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the mackerel family Scombridae, especially the bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus, formerly Orcynus thynnus or Albacora thynnus), called also the common tunny or great tunny, a native of the Mediterranean Sea and of temperate parts of the Atlantic Ocean. It sometimes weighs a thousand pounds or more, and is caught commercially in large quantity for use as food; - also called, especially in Britain, tunny. It is also one of the favorite fishes used by the Japanese in preparing sushi. On the American coast, especially in New England, it is sometimes called the horse mackerel. Another well-known species is the yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) of warm seas. the See Illust. of Horse mackerel, under Horse.
Kingfish
Any of several similar fishes of the Pacific.
Tuna
The bonito, 2.
Kingfish
(Scomberomorus commerson) of Australia
Tuna
The meat of the tuna, used as food; - also called tuna fish.
Kingfish
(Argyrosomus japonicus) of Australia
Tuna
Tropical American flat-jointed prickly pear; Jamaica
Kingfish
Yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi) of Australia and New Zealand
Tuna
Important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks
Kingfish
(Rexea solandri) of Australia
Tuna
Any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters
Kingfish
Caranx
Tuna
New Zealand eel
Kingfish
(Caranx hippos) of Mauritania
Kingfish
Giant trevally or travelli (Caranx ignobilis) of South Africa
Kingfish
Cobia (Rachycentron canadum), of warm waters globally.
Kingfish
An American marine food fish of the genus Menticirrus, especially Menticirrus saxatilis, or Menticirrus nebulosos, of the Atlantic coast; - called also whiting, surf whiting, and barb.
Kingfish
The lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States
Kingfish
Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters
Kingfish
Small silvery marine food fish found off California
Kingfish
Any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast
Kingfish
Large game fish of Australia and New Zealand