[pig-fish] 
) -fish. | a grunt, Orthopristis chrysoptera, living in waters off the Atlantic coast of the southern U.S. |
| 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.] |