What is "boxfish"

Trunkfish \Trunk"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontid[ae], having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish.

n. Any of the family Ostraciidae of squared, bony fish, closely related to the pufferfish and filefish.

1. n. any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates [syn: trunkfish]

2. [also: boxfishes (pl)]