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BONEFISH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: bonefishes   

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons

Synonyms:

Albula vulpes; bonefish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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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