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a bone of a fish.

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Noun

fishbone - a bone of a fish

fish - any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills; "the shark is a large fish"; "in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish"

bone, os - rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates

Translations

fishbone [ˈfɪʃbəʊn] N → espina f, raspa f

fishbone [ˈfɪʃˌbəʊn] n → lisca, spina

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