bonytongue

English

Etymology

bony + tongue, in reference to a toothed bone on the floor of the mouth.

Noun

bonytongue (plural bonytongues)

  1. Any large-sized freshwater fish in the family Osteoglossidae, which also includes the family Arapaimidae, sometimes treated as subfamily Arapaiminae
    • 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.

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