noun
common bonito of Pacific coast of the Americas; its dark oily flesh cans well
• Syn: ↑Chilean bonito, ↑Pacific bonito, ↑Sarda chiliensis
• Hypernyms: ↑bonito
• Member Holonyms: ↑Sarda, ↑genus Sarda
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noun also chilean bonitoUsage: usually capitalized C
: a common bonito (Sarda chiliensis) of the Pacific coast of the Americas being metallic blue above and silvery below with dark oily flesh that cans especially well — compare atlantic bonito
Useful english dictionary. 2012.