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- English Word Tunnelling Definition of Tunnel
- English Word Tunnies Definition of Tunny
- English Word Tunning Definition of Tun
- English Word Tunny Definition Any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the Mackerel family, especially the common or great tunny (Orcynus / Albacora 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.
- English Word Tup Definition To butt, as a ram does.
- English Word Tup Definition To cover; -- said of a ram.
- English Word Tup Definition A ram.
- English Word Tupaiid Definition Any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic insectivores of the family Tupaiidae, somewhat resembling squirrels in size and arboreal habits. The nose is long and pointed.
- English Word Tupal Definition Any one of the tupaiids.
- English Word Tupelo Definition A North American tree (Nyssa multiflora) of the Dogwood family, having brilliant, glossy foliage and acid red berries. The wood is crossgrained and very difficult to split. Called also black gum, sour gum, and pepperidge.
- English Word Tupman Definition A man who breeds, or deals in tups.
- English Word Tupmen Definition of Tupman
- English Word Tur Definition The urus.
- English Word Turacin Definition A red or crimson pigment obtained from certain feathers of several species of turacou; whence the name. It contains nearly six per cent of copper.
- English Word Turacou Definition Any one of several species of plantain eaters of the genus Turacus, native of Africa. They are remarkable for the peculiar green and red pigments found in their feathers.
- English Word Turacoverdin Definition A green pigment found in the feathers of the turacou. See Turacin.
- English Word Turanian Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, an extensive family of languages of simple structure and low grade (called also Altaic, Ural-Altaic, and Scythian), spoken in the northern parts of Europe and Asia and Central Asia; of pertaining to, or designating, the people who speak these languages.
- English Word Turanian Definition One of the Turanians.
- English Word Turanians Definition An extensive division of mankind including the Mongols and allied races of Asia, together with the Malays and Polynesians.
- English Word Turanians Definition A group of races or tribes inhabiting Asia and closely related to the Mongols.
- English Word Turatt Definition The hare kangaroo.
- English Word Turban Definition A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck.
- English Word Turban Definition A kind of headdress worn by women.
- English Word Turban Definition The whole set of whorls of a spiral shell.
- English Word Turban-shell Definition A sea urchin when deprived of its spines; -- popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban.
- English Word Turban-top Definition A kind of fungus with an irregularly wrinkled, somewhat globular pileus (Helvella, / Gyromitra, esculenta.).
- English Word Turband Definition A turban.
- English Word Turbaned Definition Wearing a turban.
- English Word Turbant Definition A turban.
- English Word Turbaries Definition of Turbary