Usually means: Colorful reef fish, snout elongated.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. hogfish: Merriam-Webster
  2. hogfish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hogfish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hogfish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hogfish: Vocabulary.com
  6. hogfish: Wordnik
  7. hogfish: Wiktionary
  8. hogfish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hogfish: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Hogfish, hogfish: Dictionary.com
  11. Hogfish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Hogfish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. hogfish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. hogfish: Rhymezone
  15. Hogfish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. hogfish: FreeDictionary.org
  17. hogfish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. hogfish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. hogfish: Cook's Thesaurus

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hogfish)

noun:  Lachnolaimus maximus, an edible species of wrasse, found in the Caribbean.
noun:  Several of the species of Bodianus.
noun:  The pigfish or sailor's choice, Orthopristis chrysoptera, or other species in genus Orthospristis.
noun:  Percina caprodes, an American freshwater fish, the log perch, rockfish, a kind of darter.
noun:  A large, red, spiny-headed, European marine fish (Scorpaena scrofa).
noun:  A pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides, ranging from Massachusetts to Texas.
noun:  A grunt, Haemulon parra.

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