boxfish

box·fish

noun

pl. boxfish, or box·fish·es

Any of various usually colorful fishes of the family Ostraciidae of warm coastal waters, having a boxlike shape with the body enclosed in bony armorlike plates. Also called trunkfish .
Any of various similar fishes of the family Aracanidae of deep temperate waters.

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Noun

(plural boxfishes or boxfish)

Any of the family Ostraciidae of squared, bony fish, closely related to the pufferfish and filefish.

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box +"Ž fish

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