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  • 101box fish — /ˈbɒks fɪʃ/ (say boks fish) noun (plural box fish or box fishes) 1. any of various species of fish of the families Acaranidae and Ostracionidae having a bony carapace and poisonous flesh. 2. → cowfish (def. 1). Usage: For variation in the plural… …

  • 102coffer-fish — coffˈer fish noun Any fish of the genus Ostracion that has a box like bony covering enveloping its entire body (also called boxˈ fish, trunkfish) • • • Main Entry: ↑coffer …

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  • 103trunk|fish — «TRUHNGK FIHSH», noun, plural fish|es or (collectively) fish. any one of a family of plectognath fishes of tropical seas, having the body encased in bony, armorlike plates, so that only the appendages can be moved …

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  • 104coffer fish — 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 …

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  • 105puffer fish — noun Date: 1927 1. any of a family (Tetraodontidae) of chiefly tropical scaleless marine bony fishes which can distend themselves to a globular form and most of which are highly poisonous called also blowfish, globefish, swellfish compare fugu 2 …

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  • 106Poacher (fish) — Taxobox name = Poachers image width = 240px image caption = Alligatorfish ( Aspidophoroides monopterygius ) regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Actinopterygii ordo = Scorpaeniformes familia = Agonidae subdivision ranks = Genera… …

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  • 107sharp-headed flying fish — mažagalvis jūrų čiurlys statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas taksono rangas rūšis atitikmenys: lot. Hirundichthys oxycephalus angl. bony flying fish; sharp headed flying fish rus. малоголовый ласточкокрыл ryšiai: platesnis terminas – jūrų… …

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  • 108scorpaenoid fish — noun fishes having the head armored with bony plates • Syn: ↑scorpaenoid • Hypernyms: ↑spiny finned fish, ↑acanthopterygian • Hyponyms: ↑lingcod, ↑Ophiodon elongatus, ↑ …

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  • 109porcupine fish — noun Date: 1681 any of several bony fishes (family Diodontidae) that have sharp spines covering the body and inflate themselves into a sphere when threatened; especially a spotted chiefly tropical fish (Diodon hystrix) that is olive to brown… …

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  • 110marlin sucker fish — marlinų prielipa statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas taksono rangas rūšis atitikmenys: lot. Rhombochirus osteochir angl. bony finned remora; hardfin marlin sucker; marlin sucker fish; spearfish remora rus. марлиновая прилипала; рыба прилипало… …

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