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1. (n.) trunkfish
any of various fishes of the family Ostraciidae, of warm seas, that have a boxlike body within bony plates.
Etymology: (1795–1805)
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1. (noun) boxfish, trunkfish
any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates
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1. (noun) trunkfish
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
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