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
The authors of this study decided that a re-evaluation of the boxfish carapace needed to be undertaken.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2015
The boxfish can't both require high maneuverability and be permanently turn-averse, but this is what the evidence had curiously shown.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2015
The boxfish is supposedly, somehow, simultaneously the most agile fish on the reef and about as easy to turn as a wheel caught in the cold embrace of a car boot.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2015
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