Home › Words › F › fishbonefishbonefishbone means A bone from a fish.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, fishbone ranks #12,383 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom fish + bone.nounA bone from a fish.e.g.“He choked on a fishbone.”Something with an appearance or structure suggestive of a fish's skeleton.e.g.“a faint fishbone pattern etched across the glass”Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).