boxfish n 1: any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates [syn: {boxfish}, {trunkfish}]
Trunkfish \Trunk"fish`\, 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]
Boxfish \Box"fish`\, n. (Zool.) The trunkfish. [1913 Webster]