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Webster 1913 Edition
Hogfish
Hog′fishˊ
,Noun.
(Zool.)
(a)
A large West Indian and Florida food fish (
Lachnolæmus
). (b)
The pigfish or sailor’s choice.
(c)
An American fresh-water fish; the log perch.
(d)
A large, red, spiny-headed, European marine fish (
Scorpæna scrofa
). Definition 2024
hogfish
hogfish
English
Noun
hogfish (plural hogfishes or hogfish)
- Lachnolaimus maximus, an edible species of wrasse, found in the Caribbean.
- Several of the species of Bodianus.
- The pigfish or sailor's choice, Orthopristis chrysoptera, or other species in genus Orthospristis.
- Percina caprodes, an American freshwater fish, the log perch, rockfish, a kind of darter.
- A large, red, spiny-headed, European marine fish (Scorpaena scrofa).
- A pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides, ranging from Massachusetts to Texas.
- A grunt, Haemulon parra.