Crossword clues for bonito
bonito
- Mackerellike fish
- Mackerel cousin
- Kind of shark
- Skipjack tuna
- Mackerel family member
- 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
- Any of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics between mackerels and tunas
- Frigate mackerel's kin
- Game and food fish
- Food fish, like a small tuna
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cobia \Co"bi*a\, n. (Zo["o]l.) An oceanic fish of large size ( Elacate canada); the crabeater; -- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant fish.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of sea fish, 1590s, from Spanish bonito, probably literally "the good one," diminutive of bueno "good," from Latin bonus (see bene-).
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of various marine fish of the genus (taxlink Sarda genus noshow=1), that are related to and resemble the tuna. 2 A large tropical fish, the skipjack tuna, allied to the tunny, ''Katsuwonus pelamis''. 3 The medregal ((taxlink Seriola fasciata species noshow=1)), an edible fish of the southern of the United States and the West Indies. 4 The cobia or crab eater (''Rachycentron canadum''), an edible fish of warm waters globally.
WordNet
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]
any of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics between mackerels and tunas
[also: bonitoes (pl)]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Bonitos are a tribe of medium-sized, ray-finned predatory fish in the family Scombridae – a family it shares with the mackerel, tuna, and Spanish mackerel tribes, and also the butterfly kingfish. Also called the Sardini tribe, it consists of eight species across four genera; three of those four genera are monotypic, having a single species each.
Bonito is the fifth album by the Spanish Latin rock group Jarabe de Palo, released in August 2003.
Bonito is a name given to various species of fish of the genus Sarda.
Bonito may also refer to:
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.