tuna
Meanings
Noun
1. prickly pear, the fruit of the nopal cactus (Opuntia, especially Opuntia ficus-indica)
2. nopal
3. a college singing group, wearing ornate clothes, called in the Americas estudiantina (Spain)
Examples3
Escondió la tuna.
She hid the prickly pear.
Al nopal solo se le arriman cuando tiene tunas.
Prickly pears are only harvested when they're bearing fruits.
¿Formabas parte de la tuna en la universidad?
Were you in the student music group in college?