Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of fishes with an exoskeleton of juxtaposed hexagonal plates forming a hard shell of bone, typical of the family Ostraciontidæ They are known as cow-fishes, trunk-fishes, and coffer-fishes. See cut under
cow-fish . - noun [lowercase] A fish of this genus; an ostraciont.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun (Zoöl.) A genus of plectognath fishes of the family
Ostraciontidae having the body covered with solid, immovable, bony plates. It includes the trunkfishes (also called boxfish).
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Examples
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Internecion, Ostracion, Cestracion; these are all to be found in
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