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bonefish

noun

Etymology

From bone + fish.

  1. inherited from *peysk-✻ — “fish”
  2. inherited from *fiskaz✻ — “fish”
  3. inherited from *fisk✻
  4. inherited from fisċ — “fish”
  5. inherited from fisch
  6. compounded as bonefish — “bone + fish”

Definitions

  1. Any of various game fish, of the family Albulidae, found in shallow, tropical waters.

  2. A surgeonfish of the family Acanthuridae, especially genus Acanthurus.

  3. A doctorfish, common dogfish, Squalus acanthias.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bonefish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA