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Noun: boxfish  'bóks,fish
  1. Any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates
    - trunkfish

Derived forms: boxfishes

Type of: plectognath, plectognath fish

Part of: family Ostraciidae, family Ostraciontidae, Ostraciidae

Encyclopedia: Boxfish