prickly pear, prickly pear cactus - cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock

tunny, tuna - any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters

saltwater fish - flesh of fish from the sea used as food

albacore - relatively small tuna with choice white flesh; major source of canned tuna

bonito - flesh of mostly Pacific food fishes of the genus Sarda of the family Scombridae; related to but smaller than tuna

bluefin, bluefin tuna - flesh of very large tuna

food fish - any fish used for food by human beings

scombroid, scombroid fish - important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters

genus Thunnus, Thunnus - tunas: warm-blooded fishes

long-fin tunny, Thunnus alalunga, albacore - large pelagic tuna the source of most canned tuna; reaches 93 pounds and has long pectoral fins; found worldwide in tropical and temperate waters

horse mackerel, Thunnus thynnus, bluefin, bluefin tuna - largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics

Thunnus albacares, yellowfin, yellowfin tuna - may reach 400 pounds; worldwide in tropics

tuna fish, tunny, tuna - important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks

eel - voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins