boxfish
Americannoun
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boxfishes,
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boxfish
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noun
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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 ● Nov. 8, 2023
A sleeping boxfish draped like a noodle over a coral branch.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2019
Buehler also misstated that the boxfish has a turn radius of nearly 180 degrees.
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2015
The boxfish swimming paradox was viewed as such essentially because it involved an egregious violation of this concept of tradeoffs, generating a “have your cake and eat it too” scenario of adaptation.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2015
That allowed them to determine just how much drag the boxfish carapace was responsible for, as well as the precise balance of forces acting on the carapace in the water.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2015
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