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FISHBONE

Dictionary entry overview: What does fishbone mean?

• FISHBONE (noun)
The noun FISHBONE has 1 sense:

1. a bone of a fish

Familiarity information: FISHBONE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FISHBONE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A bone of a fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("fishbone" is a kind of...):

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

Holonyms ("fishbone" is a part of...):

fish (any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills)

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