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BONEFISH (bonefishes)
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Irregular inflected form: bonefishes
Dictionary entry overview: What does bonefish mean?
• BONEFISH (noun)
The noun BONEFISH has 1 sense:
1. slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons
Familiarity information: BONEFISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Albula vulpes; bonefish
Hypernyms ("bonefish" is a kind of...):
malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)
Holonyms ("bonefish" is a member of...):
Albula; genus Albula (type and sole genus of the family Albulidae)
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