Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various usually colorful fishes of the family Ostraciidae of warm coastal waters, having a boxlike shape with the body enclosed in bony armorlike plates.
- noun Any of various similar fishes of the family Aracanidae of deep temperate waters.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of sundry plectognath fishes of the suborder Gymnodontes and family Tetrodontidœ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The trunkfish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the
family Ostraciidae ofsquared ,bony fish , closely related to thepufferfish andfilefish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates
Etymologies
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Examples
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The undulations of a wolf eel are mirrored in a wave, and a white-spotted boxfish is emphasized by painterly slashes of yellow.
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Unbelievably, aquarium officials admitted that they had hoped Dottie might eventually come to see the die as a mature and friendly adult boxfish.
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Dottie, a boxfish who lives at a British aquarium, passes the time playing with a giant die, her only “companion.”
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Mercedes engineers constructed a model of the boxfish, put it in a wind tunnel in Germany, found it to be unusually aerodynamic and turned the idea behind the model into a vehicular prototype.
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Mercedes based the shape of its bionic car prototype on a tropical fish called the "boxfish."
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Among their findings were the inch-long file clam, the whitespotted boxfish, sacoglossan sea slug and the frankly terrifying post-larval octopus.
British Blogs 2010
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Only problem is that the exoskeleton might not work, since boxfish don't have head on collisions with other boxfish (or anything else), and they're a bit more forgiving in that their materials are soft.
Autoblog 2009
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Unbelievably, aquarium officials admitted that they had hoped Dottie might eventually come to see the die as a mature and friendly adult boxfish.
unknown title 2009
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Dottie, a boxfish who lives at a British aquarium, passes the time playing with a giant die, her only "companion."
unknown title 2009
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Daimler-Chrysler's designers and engineers scoured nature for the best organism on which to base their vehicle and came up with the boxfish.
Autoblog 2009
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