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pigfish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pigfish has 2 senses
- pigfish(n = noun.animal) achoerodus gouldii, giant pigfish - found around the Great Barrier Reef; Array is a kind of wrasse
- pigfish(n = noun.animal) hogfish, orthopristis chrysopterus - found from Long Island southward; Array is a kind of grunt
is a member of achoerodus, genus achoerodus
is a member of genus orthopristis, orthopristis
CIDE DICTIONARY
pigfish, n.
Any one of several species of salt-water grunts; -- called also hogfish . [1913 Webster]
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