boxfish, trunkfish
(noun) any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates
Source: WordNet® 3.1
trunkfish (plural trunkfishes or trunkfish)
Species of genera Lactophrys and Rhinesomus (in boxfish family Ostraciidae).
Source: Wiktionary
Trunk"fish`, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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