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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Any ostraciont.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) 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.

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  • noun boxfish

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates

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