bonefish, Albula vulpes
(noun) slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons
Source: WordNet® 3.1
bonefish (plural bonefish or bonefishes)
Any of various game fish, of the family Albulidae, found in shallow, tropical waters.
Albula vulpes, the type of the genus and family.
A surgeonfish of the family Acanthuridae, especially genus Acanthurus.
(New England) A doctorfish, common dogfish, Squalus acanthias.
• (Albulidae): grey ghost, ladyfish, grubber, macabé
• fishbone
Source: Wiktionary
Bone"fish`, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: See Ladyfish.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
5 May 2024
(noun) the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
