"boxfish" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: boxfishes [plural], boxfish [plural]
Etymology: box + fish Etymology templates: {{compound|en|box|fish}} box + fish Head templates: {{en-noun|+|boxfish}} boxfish (plural boxfishes or boxfish)
  1. Any of the family Ostraciidae of often colorful, squared, bony fishes. Categories (lifeform): Tetraodontiforms Synonyms (both senses): cofferfishes Coordinate_terms (fish of the family Ostraciidae): cowfishes, trunkfishes, turretfish Translations (fish of the family Ostraciidae): losserokala (Finnish), poisson-coffre [masculine] (French), 箱河豚 (hakofugu) (alt: ハコフグ) (Japanese)
    Sense id: en-boxfish-en-noun-qe2DHAoJ Disambiguation of Tetraodontiforms: 66 34 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 58 42 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 52 48 Disambiguation of 'both senses': 68 32 Disambiguation of 'fish of the family Ostraciidae': 60 40 Disambiguation of 'fish of the family Ostraciidae': 60 40
  2. Certain species in Ostraciidae, principally in genus Ostracion.
    Sense id: en-boxfish-en-noun-UkTjGPzR Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 52 48

Inflected forms

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