TRUNKFISH

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: trunkfishes

Meaning:

Any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates

Synonyms:

boxfish; trunkfish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("trunkfish" is a kind of...):

plectognath; plectognath fish (tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trunkfish"):

cowfish; Lactophrys quadricornis (trunkfish having hornlike spines over the eyes)

Holonyms ("trunkfish" is a member of...):

family Ostraciidae; family Ostraciontidae; Ostraciidae (boxfishes)