热带产的一种硬鳞鱼

[ noun ]
any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates
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Boxfish \Box"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
The trunkfish.

Trunkfish \Trunk"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging
to the genus {Ostracion}, or the family {Ostraciontid[ae]},
having an angular body covered with a rigid integument
consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called
also {coffer fish}, and {boxfish}.