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hog·fish (hôg′fis̸h′)

noun pl. hogfish -·fish′, hogfishes -·fish′es

  1. any of several fishes whose head supposedly resembles that of a hog, as a pigfish
  2. a bright-red, edible wrasse (Lachnolaimus maximus) found off the SE coast of the U.S.

Etymology: orig. ? transl. of OFr porpeis: see porpoise

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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