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hogfish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hogfish has 2 senses
- hogfish(n = noun.animal) hog snapper, lachnolaimus maximus - large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout; Array is a kind of wrasse
- hogfish(n = noun.animal) orthopristis chrysopterus, pigfish - found from Long Island southward; Array is a kind of grunt
is a member of genus orthopristis, orthopristis
CIDE DICTIONARY
hogfish, n.
A large West Indian and Florida food fish (Lachnolæmus ). [1913 Webster]
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