'Boxfish' definitions:
Definition of 'boxfish'
(from WordNet)
noun
Any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates [syn: boxfish, trunkfish]
Definition of 'Boxfish'
From: GCIDE
- Boxfish \Box"fish`\, n. (Zool.) The trunkfish. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'boxfish'
From: GCIDE
- Trunkfish \Trunk"fish`\, n. (Zool.) Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish. [1913 Webster]