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bonefish

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bone·fish  (bnfsh)
n. pl. bonefish or bone·fish·es
A marine game fish (Albula vulpes) of warm shallow waters, having silvery scales.
[From its many small bones.]
bonefish [ˈbəʊnˌfɪʃ]
n pl -fish, -fishes
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a silvery marine clupeoid game fish, Albula vulpes, occurring in warm shallow waters: family Albulidae
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a similar related fish, Dixonina nemoptera, of the Pacific Ocean
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Noun1.bonefishbonefish - 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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Captain Bouley began his career as a flyfishing guide in Key West, sight fishing the flats of Florida Bay for bonefish, tarpon and permit.
Angling 'round the big bend by Vatalaro, Michael / BOAT/U.S. Magazine
The mangroves in West Andros support species as diverse as bonefish, snapper, grouper, spiny lobster, tarpon and reef fish" Some of these fish remain in local waters, while other young fish tagged near Andros have been tracked for hundreds of miles.
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In those spots, if you trained your eyes on the area where the clear water stranded off into the deeper green underbelly of the incoming waves, you'd see the most intimidating bonefish, the sovereign loners, a full yard long, which didn't need to slide into the knee-deep flats to nibble little stuff.
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