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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 alsocoffer fish , andboxfish .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- 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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I also saw lettuce slugs, a scorpionfish, a small orange sea horse, a spotted burrfish, a spotted trunkfish, spotted drum and a southern stingray.
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