BOXFISH


Meaning of BOXFISH in English

ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun

: any of a number of small bright-colored fishes (family Ostraciontidae) of tropical seas that are related to the triggerfishes but have the body and head enclosed in a hard carapace of hexagonal bony plates — called also trunkfish

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