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Glossary entry

Katsuo. Bonito fish.

Related words and phrases

Katsuo-boshi. Dried bonito fish.

Reader comments

• From RSa [email, 30 April 2020]: ``Bonito is actually an English word, not Japanese, although it certainly sounds Japanese. Here's the definition I lifted from my CD-ROM dictionary:

  bo-ni-to, n., pl. (esp. collectively) -to, (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) -tos

  1. Any mackerellike fish of the genus Sarda, as S. sarda, of the Atlantic Ocean.
  2. Any of several related species, as the skipjack, Euthynnus pelamis.

  [1590-1600; < Sp < Ar bain:th]

  ''

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