bonito
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- noun
- /bəˈniːtoʊ/
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bonito
- This is especially true for mackerel, bonito, and white croaker.
- bonito and mackerel
Examples
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Observations during the oil spill period indicated that schools of anchovy, bonito, and jack mackerel were in the normal geographical areas of distribution within the Santa Barbara Channel and Islands, and that their behavior below the oil slick was normal relative to depth, movement, and school shape.
Academic text (1992) -
Sometimes we'd bring squid, mostly when we were interested in bigger mackerel or bonito, which brought us more than chump change at the fish market.
Fiction book (2000) -
I got some bonito, 40 pounds.
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Robert, have you ever been down to the Gulf on the bonito run?
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Yeah, we were down in the Gulf, fishing bonito.
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Smoke bonito you can dip in ginger sauce.
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Immediate chilling offish, such as mackerel, barracuda, and bonito, should improve their quality significantly.
Academic text (1990) -
Species targeted by most Florida operators included grouper, king mackerel, snapper, amberjack, dolphin, bonito, Sarda sarda, and shark.
Academic text (1992) -
One afternoon, as we fought a record-sized bonito and yelled at one another to pull it up, Tom-Su sat to the side and didn't notice or care about the happenings at all; he didn't even budge, just stared straight down at the water.
Fiction book (2000) -
The chef prepared a delicious sushi roll filled with bonito to highlight its rich flavor.
Synonyms
A medium fish like tuna that people eat in warm Atlantic and Pacific waters
A medium-sized fish like a small tuna that people eat and that lives in warm Atlantic and Mediterranean waters
A fish like a small tuna with dark oily flesh from the Pacific coast of the Americas
A fish from the Pacific coast with dark oily flesh used for canning
A fish from the Pacific coast with dark oily flesh often used for canning
A fish whose dried, flaked meat is used in Japanese cooking
Compounds
- Australian
A blue-grey shark from the southwest Pacific that people catch for food and sport
- Specialized
A fish from the Pacific coast with dark oily flesh often used for canning
- Specialized
A medium-sized fish like a small tuna that people eat and that lives in warm Atlantic and Mediterranean waters
- Specialized
A fish like a small tuna with dark oily flesh from the Pacific coast of the Americas
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bonito comes from the Spanish and Portuguese word bonito, which means 'pretty' or 'good'. So people called the fish bonito because of its shiny, 'pretty' skin or because it was 'good' to eat, and today bonito still names this mackerel-like fish used in cooking.