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 ]
[はこふぐ;ハコフグ, hakofugu ; hakofugu](n) (1) (uk) bluespotted boxfish (Ostracion immaculatus); (2) boxfish (any fish of family Ostraciidae); trunkfish[Add to Longdo]
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 ]
[はこふぐ;ハコフグ, hakofugu ; hakofugu](n) (1) (uk) bluespotted boxfish (Ostracion immaculatus); (2) boxfish (any fish of family Ostraciidae); trunkfish[Add to Longdo]