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bonito /bəˈniːtəʊ /noun (plural bonitos)1A small tuna with dark oblique stripes on the back, important as a food and game fish.- Sarda and related genera, family Scombridae: several species.
The family Scombridae, the mackerels, tunas, and bonitos, includes some of the world's most popular food and sport fishes....- Mackerel are members of the scombrid fish clade that includes tuna and bonitos and possess a forked tail.
- What to buy: tinned and preserved foods like bonito tuna, white anchovies and anchovy olives.
1.1 another term for skipjack (sense 1).We have frozen ocean bonito for canning and smoking purposes....- I also had a few pieces of barely-cooked ocean bonito - a little too fishy for me.
- Aku, ocean bonito, is perhaps the most delicious eating fish.
OriginLate 16th century: from Spanish. RhymesBenito, burrito, coquito, graffito, Hirohito, incognito, Ito, magneto, Miskito, mosquito, Quito, Tito, veto |