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hog⋅fish

  [hawg-fish, hog-]
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–noun, plural (especially collectively) -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.
Origin:
1590–1600; trans. of ML porcopiscis porpoise. See hog, fish
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hog·fish   (hôg'fĭsh', hŏg'-)   
n.   pl. hogfish or hog·fish·es

  1. A colorful fish (Lachnolaimus maximus) of warm Atlantic waters, having a long snout in the adult male.

  2. See pigfish.

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