trunkfish Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Trunk"fish` noun
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidæ, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish.

Webster 1913