Definition of boxfish Boxfish

box•fish

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What does boxfish mean?

WordNet

WordNet by Princeton University

Noun

Plural: boxfishes

boxfish - any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates
  trunkfish
  plectognath, plectognath fish tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines
  family ostraciidae, family ostraciontidae, ostraciidae boxfishes
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  • boxfish (n.)
    The trunkfish.

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  • boxfish, noun.

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