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‖ bonito|boˈnito|
Forms: 7 bonuto, 7–9 -eto, 8 bineto, boneeto, -ite, -ata, 8–9 -eta, -ita, -etta, 6– bonito.
[a. Sp. bonito, of doubtful origin: bonito adj. ‘pretty good, pretty’ is a native Sp. word; but the Sp. Academy derive the name of the fish from an Arabic bainīth, which looks like an adaptation of the Spanish.]
The striped tunny; a fish growing to the length of three feet, common in tropical seas, living chiefly on the flying-fish. The name is also given to one or two other similar fish.
1599Hakluyt Voy. II. ii. 105 Bonitos and flying fishes. 1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 67 The bonito, or Spanish makerell, is altogether like unto a makerell, but that it is somewhat more growne. 1713Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 234 We took..a Fish which some thought was a Boneta. 1773Cook 1st Voy. I. 98 The heaviest and most vigorous fish, such as bonettas and albicores. 1829Southey O. Newman i. Wks. X. 275 Gay bonitos in their beauty glide. 1833Marryat P. Simple (1863) 217 The bonetas and dolphins..chased the flying fish. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. viii. |