boxfish
Americannoun
PLURAL
boxfishesPLURAL
boxfishnoun
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Origin of boxfish
Example Sentences
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Nature has no shortage of patterns, from spots on leopards to stripes on zebras and hexagons on boxfish.
From Science Daily
It also gives them their strange shapes: other boxfish species look like purses, Frisbees or ottomans.
From New York Times
A sleeping boxfish draped like a noodle over a coral branch.
From Washington Post
That includes an idea based on a fly swatter, another based on combining the shapes of a boxfish and manta ray and a third developed by a pair of Ph.D. students in aerospace engineering.
From Golf Digest
The boxfish uses its mouth to blow tiny jets of water into the sandy seabed, stirring up small invertebrates.
From BBC
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