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box·fish (b

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n. pl. boxfish or box·fish·es

See trunkfish.

boxfish [ˈbɒksˌfɪʃ]

n pl -fish, -fishes

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / 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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