Usually means: Diagram for identifying cause, effect.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word fishbone:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. fishbone: Collins English Dictionary
  2. fishbone: Vocabulary.com
  3. Fishbone, fishbone: Wordnik
  4. fishbone: Wiktionary
  5. fishbone: Dictionary.com
  6. Fishbone (EP), Fishbone (disambiguation), Fishbone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. fishbone: Rhymezone
  8. fishbone: FreeDictionary.org
  9. fishbone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. fishbone: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fishbone: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fishbone)

▸ noun:  A bone from a fish.
▸ noun:  (figurative, attributive) Something with an appearance or structure suggestive of a fish's skeleton.

Similar:
bone, pin bone, pinbone, pectinal, ossean, finspine, actinost, bony fish, ladyfish, fishhead, more...

Opposite:
backbone, spine, vertebral column

Phrases:
fishbone diagram, fishbone fern, more...

Adjectives:
magic, single, small, large, desirable, long, sharp, little



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Similar:
bone, pin bone, pinbone, pectinal, ossean, finspine, actinost, bony fish, ladyfish, fishhead, more...

Opposite:
backbone, spine, vertebral column

Phrases:
fishbone diagram, fishbone fern, more...

Adjectives:
magic, single, small, large, desirable, long, sharp, little



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