bonefish

[bohn-fish]

bone·fish

[bohn-fish]
noun, plural bone·fish·es, (especially collectively) bone·fish.
a marine game fish, Albula vulpes, found in shallow tropical waters, having a skeleton composed of numerous small, fine bones.
Also called ladyfish.


Origin:
1725–35, Americanism; bone1 + fish
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Bonefish is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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bonefish (ˈbəʊnˌfɪʃ)
 
n , pl -fish, -fishes
1.  a silvery marine clupeoid game fish, Albula vulpes, occurring in warm shallow waters: family Albulidae
2.  a similar related fish, Dixonina nemoptera, of the Pacific Ocean

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