noun
Meaning 1
A bone from a fish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- He choked on a fishbone.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
fishbone
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noun
Meaning 2
Something with an appearance or structure suggestive of a fish's skeleton.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, figuratively
Examples
- a faint fishbone pattern etched across the glass
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a bone of a fish
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bone, os
History
Etymology
From fish + bone.
Across languages
Translations
65 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: halë — bone of a fish
- Arabic: سفة (safa) — bone of a fish
- Armenian: փուշ (pʻuš) — bone of a fish
- Asturian: caspia — bone of a fish
- Asturian: aresta — bone of a fish
- Asturian: espina — bone of a fish
- Azerbaijani: qılçıq — bone of a fish
- Bulgarian: рибна кост (ribna kost) — bone of a fish
- Catalan: espina — bone of a fish
- Catalan: espina de peix — bone of a fish
- Chinese Cantonese: 魚骨 /鱼骨 (jyu4 gwat1) — bone of a fish
- Chinese Mandarin: 魚骨 /鱼骨 (yúgǔ) — bone of a fish
- Chinese Mandarin: 魚刺 /鱼刺 (yúcì) — bone of a fish
- Chuvash: пулӑ шӑмми (pulă š̬ămmi) — bone of a fish
- Czech: rybí kost — bone of a fish
- Danish: fiskeben — bone of a fish
- Dutch: graat — bone of a fish
- Esperanto: fiŝosto — bone of a fish
- Estonian: luu — bone of a fish
- Finnish: kalanruoto — bone of a fish
- Finnish: ruodot — bone of a fish
- French: arête — bone of a fish
- French: arête de poisson — bone of a fish
- Galician: espiña — bone of a fish
- Galician: argana — bone of a fish
- Galician: escana — bone of a fish
- Galician: morghana — bone of a fish
- Galician: xalra — bone of a fish
- Galician: aresta — bone of a fish
- German: Gräte — bone of a fish
- German: Fischgräte — bone of a fish
- Greek: ψαροκόκαλο (psarokókalo) — bone of a fish
- Hebrew: אִדְרָה (idrá) — bone of a fish
- Hungarian: szálka — bone of a fish
- Italian: lisca — bone of a fish
- Italian: lisca di pesce — bone of a fish
- Italian: spina — bone of a fish
- Italian: spina di pesce — bone of a fish
- Latvian: asaka — bone of a fish
- Norman: héthèque — bone of a fish
- Norwegian: fiskebein — bone of a fish
- Polish: ość — bone of a fish
- Portuguese: espinha — bone of a fish
- Portuguese: espinha de peixe — bone of a fish
- Punjabi: ਮੱਛੀਕੰਡਾ (macchīkaṇḍā) — bone of a fish
- Romanian: os de pește — bone of a fish
- Russian: ры́бья кость (rýbʹja kostʹ) — bone of a fish
- Russian: косточка (kostočka) — bone of a fish
- Sicilian: resca — bone of a fish
- Lower Sorbian: rybjeca wósć — bone of a fish
- Spanish: espina — bone of a fish
- Spanish: espina del pescado — bone of a fish
- Swedish: fiskben — bone of a fish
- Tày: cảng — bone of a fish
- Telugu: చేప ముల్లు (cēpa mullu) — bone of a fish
- Thai: ก้าง (gâang) — bone of a fish
- Turkish: kılçık — bone of a fish
- Ottoman Turkish: قیلچق (qılçık) — bone of a fish
- Ukrainian: риб'яча кістка (rybʺjača kistka) — bone of a fish
- Vietnamese: xương cá — bone of a fish
- Volapük: fitabom — bone of a fish
- Volapük: fitabomil — bone of a fish
- Welsh: asgwrn pysgod — bone of a fish
- Yiddish: ביינדל (beyndl) — bone of a fish
- Yiddish: פֿישביינדל (fishbeyndl) — bone of a fish