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fishbone

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n.1.a bone of a fish.
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Noun1.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
fishbone [ˈfɪʃˌbəʊn] n → lisca, spina


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It happened she had once had a big blue bear for a pet; but the bear choked to death on a fishbone one day, and she loved it so dearly that Dyna made a rug of its skin, leaving the head and four paws on the hide.
The Road to Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
Silas, released, put his hand to his throat, cleared it, and looked as if he had a rather large fishbone in that region.
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context
They went back then to their little acre, and the days came and went, and the man fashioned spear and bow and arrows and hunted with them that they might have meat, and he made hooks of fishbone and caught fishes with wondrous flies of his own invention; and the girl gathered fruits and cooked the flesh and the fish and made beds of branches and soft grasses.
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