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fishbone - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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From fish +‎ bone.

fishbone (plural fishbones)

  1. A bone from a fish.

    He choked on a fishbone.

  2. (figurative, attributive) Something with an appearance or structure suggestive of a fish's skeleton.
    Coordinate terms: dogbone, wishbone

    a faint fishbone pattern etched across the glass

bone of a fish