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CIDE DICTIONARY

ostracion, prop. n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'ostra`kion small shell.].

A genus of plectognath fishes of the family Ostraciontidae having the body covered with solid, immovable, bony plates. It includes the trunkfishes (also called boxfish). [1913 Webster]

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