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trunkfish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun trunkfish has 1 sense
- trunkfish(n = noun.animal) boxfish - any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates; Array is a kind of plectognath, plectognath fish
is a member of family ostraciidae, family ostraciontidae, ostraciidae
has particulars: cowfish, lactophrys quadricornis
CIDE DICTIONARY
trunkfish, n.
Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion , or the family Ostraciontidæ , having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish , and boxfish . [1913 Webster]
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