[hawg-fish, hog-] 
) -fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -fish⋅es. | 1. | a large wrasse, Lachnolaimus maximus, of the western Atlantic Ocean, used for food. |
| 2. | any of various other fishes having a fancied resemblance to a hog, as the pigfish and logperch. |
| hog·fish (hôg'fĭsh', hŏg'-) n. pl. hogfish or hog·fish·es
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| pig·fish (pĭg'fĭsh') n. pl. pigfish or pig·fish·es A North American grunt (Orthopristis chrysoptera) with a piglike mouth, found along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States and important as a food fish. Also called hogfish. [From the grunting sound it makes.] |
hogfish
any of certain species of fishes in the wrasse family, Labridae (order Perciformes). Although representatives of the family are found in tropical to temperate oceans throughout the world, the hogfishes occur only in the Atlantic, predominantly in the West Indies
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