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BOXFISH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: boxfishes   

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates

Synonyms:

boxfish; trunkfish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("boxfish" is a kind of...):

plectognath; plectognath fish (tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "boxfish"):

cowfish; Lactophrys quadricornis (trunkfish having hornlike spines over the eyes)

Holonyms ("boxfish" is a member of...):

family Ostraciidae; family Ostraciontidae; Ostraciidae (boxfishes)

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