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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
boxfish
    n 1: any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head
         encased in bony plates [syn: boxfish, trunkfish]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Boxfish \Box"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
   The trunkfish.
   [1913 Webster]
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