fishbone

English

Etymology

fish +‎ bone

Pronunciation

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Noun

fishbone (plural fishbones)

1. A bone from a fish.

   He choked on a fishbone.

2. (figurative, attributive) With an appearance or structure suggestive of a fish's skeleton.

   Coordinate terms: dogbone, wishbone

   a faint fishbone pattern etched across the glass

Derived terms

• fishbone diagram

Related terms

• bonefish
• bony fish
• herringbone

 

Translations

bone of a fish

• Albanian: halë (sq) f
• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: سفة f (safa)

• Armenian: փուշ (hy) (pʻuš)
• Bulgarian: рибна кост f (ribna kost)
• Catalan: espina (ca) f, espina de peix f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 魚骨／鱼骨 (jyu⁴ gwat¹)

  Mandarin: 魚骨／鱼骨 (zh) (yúgǔ), 魚刺／鱼刺 (zh) (yúcì)

• Chuvash: пулă шăмми (pulă šămmi)
• Czech: rybí kost f
• Danish: fiskeben n
• Dutch: graat (nl) m
• Esperanto: fiŝosto
• Estonian: luu (et)
• Finnish: kalanruoto (fi), ruodot (fi) pl
• French: arête (fr) f, arête de poisson f
• Galician: espiña (gl) f, argana (gl) f, escana f, morghana f, xalra f, aresta (gl) f
• German: Gräte (de) f, Fischgräte (de) f
• Greek: ψαροκόκκαλο (el) n (psarokókkalo)
• Hebrew: אִדְרָה (he) f (idrá)
• Hungarian: szálka (hu)
• Italian: lisca (it) f, lisca di pesce f, spina (it) f, spina di pesce f
• Latvian: asaka
• Norman: héthèque f
• Norwegian: fiskebein n
• Ottoman Turkish: قیلچق (qılçık)
• Polish: ość (pl) f
• Portuguese: espinha (pt) f, espinha de peixe f
• Punjabi: ਮੱਛੀਕੰਡਾ m (macchīkaṇḍā)
• Romanian: os de pește n
• Russian: ры́бья кость f (rýbʹja kostʹ), косточка (ru) (kostočka)
• Sicilian: resca f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: rybjeca wósć f

• Spanish: espina (es) f, espina del pescado f
• Swedish: fiskben (sv) n
• Telugu: చేప ముల్లు (te) (cēpa mullu)
• Thai: ก้าง (th) (gâang)
• Turkish: kılçık (tr)
• Ukrainian: риб'яча кістка (rybʺjača kistka)
• Vietnamese: xương cá
• Volapük: fitabom (vo), (diminutive) fitabomil (vo)
• Welsh: asgwrn pysgod m
• Yiddish: ביינדל (beyndl), פֿישביינדל (fishbeyndl)

Anagrams

• bonefish