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fishbone

fishbone noun: a bone from a fish.

Noun

fishbone (plural fishbones)

A bone from a fish.
- He choked on a fishbone.
(attributive, figuratively) Something with an appearance or structure suggestive of a fish's skeleton.
- a faint fishbone pattern etched across the glass

fishbone meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Punjabi

fishbone in Tamil

தலைவாள், கெளிர்ச்சல்லியம்

fishbone in Bengali

fishbone: কাঁটা kãṭa

fishbone in Telugu

bone of a fish: చేప ముల్లు cēpa mullu

fishbone in Punjabi

bone of a fish: ਮੱਛੀਕੰਡਾ macchīkaṇḍā

More languagesFewer languages

fishbone in Odia: କଣ୍ଟା kaṇṭā
fishbone in Sanskrit: कण्टक káṇṭaka
fishbone in Assamese: কাঁইট kãit, কঁটা kõta, কাঁটা kãta
fishbone in Thai: ก้าง gâang
fishbone in Vietnamese: xương cá

Forms of fishbone

plural	fishbones

Origin of fishbone

From fish + bone.

Words formed from fishbone

Phrases with fishbone

fishbone diagrams

Questions about fishbone

What does fishbone mean?: Fishbone means a bone from a fish.
What is fishbone in Tamil?: Fishbone in Tamil is தலைவாள், கெளிர்ச்சல்லியம். See Fishbone meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fishbone?: Fishbone is a noun.
What is the plural of fishbone?: The plural of fishbone is fishbones.

Words near fishbone in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: fishbone (page history and authors); fishbone (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); কাঁটা (Bengali) (page history and authors); କଣ୍ଟା (Odia) (page history and authors); कण्टक (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); কঁটা (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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