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[syn: boxfish, trunkfish]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Trunkfish \Trunk"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging
to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae,
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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Boxfish \Box"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
The trunkfish.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
boxfish
n 1: any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head
encased in bony plates [syn: boxfish, trunkfish]