fishbone
/ˈfɪʃboʊn/
noun
- A bone of a fish, especially one of the many small, thin bones in the flesh.
- A fishbone got stuck in my throat, and I had to drink water to wash it down.
- Be careful eating this trout; it has lots of tiny fishbones.
- She removed the fishbones before serving the salmon to the children.
- A diagram shaped like a fish skeleton, used to identify possible causes of a problem (also called a fishbone diagram or Ishikawa diagram).
- The team created a fishbone diagram to analyze why sales dropped.
- The fishbone chart helped us see all the factors contributing to the error.
- In the meeting, we used a fishbone to brainstorm root causes of the delay.