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bone·fish

(bōn′fĭsh′)

n. pl. bonefish or bone·fish·es

Any of several silvery marine fishes of the family Albulidae, especially Albula vulpes, a game fish of warm shallow waters worldwide.

[From its many small bones.]

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bonefish

(ˈbəʊnˌfɪʃ)

n, pl -fish or -fishes

1. (Animals) a silvery marine clupeoid game fish, Albula vulpes, occurring in warm shallow waters: family Albulidae

2. (Animals) a similar related fish, Dixonina nemoptera, of the Pacific Ocean

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bone•fish

(ˈboʊnˌfɪʃ)

n., pl. -fish•es, (esp. collectively) -fish.

a silver game and food fish, Albula vulpes, of warm coastal seas. Also called ladyfish.

[1725–35, Amer.]

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bonefish - slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons

Albula vulpes

malacopterygian, soft-finned fish - any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii

Albula, genus Albula - type and sole genus of the family Albulidae

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