Crossword clues for bonefish
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of various game fish, of the family ''(taxlink Albulidae family noshow=1)'', found in shallow, tropical waters. 2 # (taxlink Albula vulpes species noshow=1), the type of the genus and family. 3 A surgeonfish of the family Acanthuridae, especially genus ''Acanthurus''. 4 (context New England English) A doctorfish, (vern common dogfish pedia=1), ''Squalus acanthias''.
WordNet
n. slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons [syn: Albula vulpes]
[also: bonefishes (pl)]
Wikipedia
The bonefish (Albula vulpes) is the type species of the bonefish family (Albulidae), the only family in order Albuliformes.
Usage examples of "bonefish".
When he went below, the diesel-oil and other stenches inside the Bonefish—all produced despite everything the crew could do—would easily surpass those of the swamps flanking the Pee Dee.
Submerged, the Bonefish made only nine knots going flat out—a pace that would quickly exhaust her batteries and force her to the surface again.
The Bonefish slid under the water in—“Thirty-eight seconds, I make it,” Brearley said, an eye to his pocket watch.
The fellow hadn’t altered course, which Kimball devoutly hoped meant he hadn’t a clue the Bonefish was anywhere about.
She started to turn toward the Bonefish, presenting the smallest area for the fish to reach.
Foul, pressurized air rushed out of the Bonefish when he undogged the hatch.
Eight knots used up battery power in a hurry, cutting deeply into the time the Bonefish could stay underwater.
Even with the Bonefish going flat out submerged, those destroyers had better than three times his speed.
By what the damnyankees were throwing at the Bonefish, it had just got harder.
Rationally, Kim-ball knew the odds were he’d said his last good-byes to everybody except the crew of the Bonefish, and he’d probably never get the chance to say good-bye to them.
He stayed up top, ready to order the Bonefish to dive if the dirigible turned his way.
At his orders, the Bonefish pulled away from the fishing boats she’d been following and slid through the water toward the battleships.
He was the only one who ever got invited up to Islamorada for the bonefish tournaments.
Teal motioned to his bonefish skiff, tied to a cleat on the Diamond Cutter's stern.
The lightweight bonefish boat planed off quickly and cut a creamy stitch in the sleepy Gulf.