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Trunk-fish. World English Historical Dictionary

Trunk-fish. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Trunk-fish Any fish of the genus Ostracion or family Ostraciontidæ, inhabiting tropical seas, and having the body of angular cross-section and covered with bony hexagonal plates; a coffer-fish.

1 1804.  Shaw, Gen. Zool., V. 420. Triquetral Trunk-fish.

2 1835.  Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7), XII. 229/2. The horned trunk-fish, Ostracion cornutus, a native, like most of the genus, of the Indian and American seas.

3 1851.  Gosse, Nat. Hist., Fishes, 288. The Trunk-fishes … have the body angular, four or three-sided, covered with angular plates of solid bone soldered together, and forming a sort of inflexible box, with openings for the mouth, the fins, the tail, and the gill-aperture.

4 1876.  Goode, Fishes Bermudas, 23. The locomotion of the trunk-fishes is very peculiar.

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