Shirodkar's operation purse-string operation | a surgical procedure in which a suture is used to close the cervix in a pregnant woman, is performed when the cervix has failed to retain previous pregnancies |
tuna Anguilla sucklandii | New Zealand eel |
tuna tunny | any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus, related to mackerel, chiefly of warm waters |
bluefin bluefin tuna horse mackerel Thunnus thynnus | largest tuna, to pounds, of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics |
yellowfin yellowfin tuna Thunnus albacares | may reach pounds, worldwide in tropics |
skipjack skipjack tuna Euthynnus pelamis | oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic, reaches pounds, very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito |
bag handbag pocketbook purse | a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women), she reached into her bag and found a comb |
purse | a small bag for carrying money |
purse seine | a seine designed to be set by two boats around a school of fish and then closed at the bottom by means of a line |
purse string | a drawstring used to close the mouth of a purse |
undertow sea puss sea-puss sea purse sea-purse sea-poose | the seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore |
tuna tuna fish tunny | important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae, usually served as steaks |
bluefin bluefin tuna | flesh of very large tuna |
tuna fish salad tuna salad | salad composed primarily of chopped canned tuna fish |
tuna Opuntia tuna | tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica |
shepherd's purse shepherd's pouch Capsella bursa-pastoris | white-flowered annual European herb bearing triangular notched pods, nearly cosmopolitan as an introduced weed |
privy purse | allowance for a monarch's personal expenses |
purse | a sum of money offered as a prize, the purse barely covered the winner's expenses |
purse | a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse, he made the contribution out of his own purse, he and his wife shared a common purse |
tuna oil | an oil obtained from tuna |
purse | contract one's lips into a rounded shape |
purse wrinkle | gather or contract into wrinkles or folds, pucker, purse ones's lips |
purse-proud | proud or arrogant because of your wealth (especially in the absence of other distinction) |