bonytongue
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
bony + tongue, in reference to a toothed bone on the floor of the mouth.
Noun[edit]
bonytongue (plural bonytongues)
- Any fish of the family Arapaimidae.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 49:
- They tell us that the fresh waters at Hainin must have been substantial, for they included the remains of a large predatorial fish known as a bonytongue, or saratoga.