hog-fish noun.
['hɒgfɪʃ] Pl. -es
[-ɪz], (usu.) same.
L16.[from HOG noun + FISH noun1.]1. A manatee.
L16-E17.2. A porpoise. Only in
17.3. a. The orange scorpion fish,
Scorpaena scrofa, of the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic. Now
rare or
obsolete.
E17.b. Any of various fishes of American waters;
esp. (a) a large edible wrasse,
Lachnolaimus maximus;
(b) a pigfish,
Orthopristis chrysoptera.
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