boxfish

Questions about boxfish

What does boxfish mean?

boxfish means "any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates".

How many syllables are in boxfish?

boxfish has 2 syllables: box-fish. The stress falls on "box".

What is another word for boxfish?

Close synonyms include trunkfish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is boxfish a common word?

boxfish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.