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  • noun Plural form of boxfish.

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Examples

  • Some Tetraodonts are square or triangular (boxfishes), others are spherical (pufferfishes), and the filefishes are laterally compressed.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Corals and Corals and schools of fish meeting schools of fish at more corals, octopus everywhere, lionfishes, stonefishes, nudibranks, a seahorse, tiny cube boxfishes, pufferfishes, corals … it was really hard to see everything, because a) there is so incredible much to see and b) there is fish everywhere.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009

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