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fishbone

noun

Etymology

From fish + bone.

  1. derived from *bʰeyh₂-✻ — “to hit, strike, beat”
  2. inherited from *bainą✻ — “bone”
  3. inherited from bān — “bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”
  4. inherited from bon
  5. compounded as fishbone — “fish + bone”

Definitions

  1. A bone from a fish.

    • He choked on a fishbone.

  2. Something with an appearance or structure suggestive of a fish's skeleton.

    • a faint fishbone pattern etched across the glass

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Derived

fishbone diagram, fishboning

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fishbone. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01fishbone02skeleton03bones04hand05corresponding06match07baseball08ball09cannon10bone

A definitional loop anchored at fishbone. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at fishbone

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA