Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several marine fishes of the family Caproidae of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, having a flattened reddish body and a projecting snout.
- noun Any of several marine fishes of the family Pentacerotidae of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, having a flattened body and a projecting snout.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name applied to various dissimilar fishes which have a projecting snout.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Mediterranean fish (
Capros aper ), of the familyCaproidæ ; -- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout. - noun An Australian percoid fish (
Histiopterus recurvirostris ), valued as a food fish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several unrelated
fish , of the genera Capros or Antigonia that have a projectingsnout
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fish with large eyes and long snouts
- noun fish with a projecting snout
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Examples
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False boarfish, Neocytlus helgae (left) and cold water coral, Lophelia (right).
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Try their boarfish, abalone, succulent whiting and Kinkawooka mussels.
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Try their boarfish, abalone, succulent whiting and Kinkawooka mussels.
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Records from the Marine Institute's annual ground fish stock survey of commercial species over the years show a gradual decline in coldwater species such as cod, with an increasing abundance of warmer water species such as lesser spotted dogfish, poor cod and even boarfish.
innovations-report 2008
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It may see them replaced with warm water fish like lesser spotted dogfish, bass and even boarfish -- a Mediterranean fish with a pig-like snout also found off New South Wales in Australia.
Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed 2008
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It may see them replaced with warm water fish like lesser spotted dogfish, bass and even boarfish - a Mediterranean fish with a pig-like snout also found off New South Wales in Australia.
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