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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller [syn: ladyfish, tenpounder, Elops saurus]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1712 1. bonefish 1 2. a large silvery bony fish (Elops saurus) of the western Atlantic that is related to the tarpon and is often caught for sport

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ladyfish La"dy*fish`, n. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A large, handsome oceanic fish (Albula vulpes), found both in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonefish, grubber, French mullet, and macab['e]. (b) A labroid fish (Harpe rufa) of Florida and the West Indies.