Fishbone

Common synonyms include: bone, cause and effect diagram, fishbone chart, ishikawa diagram, skeletal element.

noun

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Definitions

Noun

1
A bone from a fish.
"He choked on a fishbone."
2
a bone of a fish wordnet
3
Something with an appearance or structure suggestive of a fish's skeleton. attributive, figuratively
"a faint fishbone pattern etched across the glass"

"a faint fishbone pattern etched across the glass"

From fish + bone.