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Any of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics between mackerels and tunas
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bonito
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Bonito is a name given to various species of fish of the genus Sarda . Bonito may also refer to:
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n. flesh of mostly Pacific food fishes of the genus Sarda of the family Scombridae; related to but smaller than tuna fish whose flesh is dried and flaked for Japanese cookery; may be same species as skipjack tuna [syn: oceanic bonito , Katsuwonus pelamis ...
Usage examples of bonito.
The vast schools of bonito and mackerel, the swarms of small white squid, the pelagic jacks, the herds of tuna, the voracious wahoo and barracuda, all were gone.
Irina, produzindo nela um prazer maior e mais bonito do que eu sentira com Tom.
Era bonito e fortalecedor sentir em mim a possibilidade de ser pai, sobretudo de um filho concebido com Liv.
Okyo had packed, spare sandals, the flea powder, the dried bonito, and the paper rain cloak.
Gobei laughed in delight at his own pun on the words for soup stock made of dried bonito and the word for soldier.
Even now the boy was speeding down the mountain to buy fresh bonito in Odawara.
Snow sent her son down the mountain after bonito, Hanshiro had given him an additional charge.
Now they were sitting on a bench in front of an open-air tea stand among booths selling sugared rice cakes, ear shellfish, and gift-wrapped packages of dried bonito and papery seaweed.
Shasa had been trolling a 159 live bonito along the oceanic drop-off under the shadow of Le Morne Brabant on the island of Mauritius when he had hooked into a gigantic mako shark.
Every few minutes a volley of leaping bonito would burst through the surface and arc in glittering silver parabolas through the brilliant tropical sunshine.
The deck-hand brought the skipjack bonito over the side and cradled him lovingly in his arms.
He knelt on the gunwale and lowered the bonito over the side, solicitous as a nursemaid.
He could tell the condition and liveliness of the bonito by the faint vibration of its tail and the intermittent tugs and jerks it gave as it attempted to turn or dive.
Suddenly the line was plucked from his fingers, but for an instant he felt the mighty weight and majesty of the marlin as it struck the bonito with the broad blunt edge of its spike.
Out there at BC57, across the wash from Pueblo Bonito, because she found a lot of his pots there broken in the process of being made.