box·fish

(bŏks′fĭsh′)

n. pl. boxfish or box·fish·es

1. Any of various usually colorful fishes of the family Ostraciidae of warm coastal waters, having a boxlike shape with the body enclosed in bony armorlike plates. Also called trunkfish.

2. Any of various similar fishes of the family Aracanidae of deep temperate waters.

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boxfish

(ˈbɒksˌfɪʃ)

n, pl -fish or -fishes

(Animals) another name for trunkfish

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Noun

boxfish - any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates

trunkfish

plectognath, plectognath fish - tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines

family Ostraciidae, family Ostraciontidae, Ostraciidae - boxfishes

cowfish, Lactophrys quadricornis - trunkfish having hornlike spines over the eyes

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