thunniform
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Latin thunnus (“tuna”) + -iform
Adjective[edit]
thunniform (not comparable)
- Resembling a tuna.
- 1999, Christopher McGowan, A Practical Guide to Vertebrate Mechanics:
- The mackerel is a scombroid fish, like the tuna, and is essentially thunniform.
- Swimming in the manner of a tuna, by undulation of the caudal fin.
Coordinate terms[edit]
- (swimming): anguilliform, carangiform