boxfish

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Etymology

box + fish

Noun

boxfish (plural boxfishes or boxfish)

  1. Any of the family Ostraciidae of often colorful, squared, bony fishes.
  2. Certain species in Ostraciidae, principally in genus Ostracion.

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