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thunniform

thunniform adjective: resembling a tuna.

Adjective

thunniform (not comparable)

  1. Resembling a tuna.
    • The mackerel is a scombroid fish, like the tuna, and is essentially thunniform.1999, Christopher McGowan, A Practical Guide to Vertebrate Mechanics
  2. Swimming in the manner of a tuna, by undulation of the caudal fin.

Origin of thunniform

From Latin thunnus (“tuna”) + -iform.

Questions about thunniform

What does thunniform mean?
Thunniform means resembling a tuna.
What part of speech is thunniform?
Thunniform is an adjective.

Words near thunniform in the dictionary

  1. thunking
  2. thunks
  3. thunnid
  4. thunnids
  5. thunnies
  6. thunniform
  7. thunnosaur
  8. thunnosaurian
  9. thunnosaurians
  10. thunnosaurs
  11. thunny

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