Fish with large eyes and long snouts

• Fish with a projecting snout

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Boarfish is the common name of two unrelated groups of fishes : All fish of the family Caproidae are called boarfish. Some fish of the family Pentacerotidae are called boarfish.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. fish with large eyes and long snouts fish with a projecting snout [syn: Capros aper ] [also: boarfishes (pl)]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of several unrelated fish, of the genera ''Capros'' or ''Antigonia'', that have a projecting snout.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boarfish \Boar"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A Mediterranean fish ( Capros aper ), of the family Caproid[ae] ; -- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout. An Australian percoid fish ( Histiopterus recurvirostris ), valued as a ...