trunkfish

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Noun

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trunk=fish

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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;

is a kind of plectognath, plectognath fish

is a member of family ostraciidae, family ostraciontidae, ostraciidae

has particulars: cowfish, lactophrys quadricornis

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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]