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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Zool.)

(a)

A Mediterranean fish (

Capros aper

), of the family

Caproidæ

; – so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog’s snout.

(b)

An Australian percoid fish (

Histiopterus recurvirostris

), valued as a food fish.

boarfish ‎(plural boarfishes or boarfish)

Any of several unrelated fish, of the genera Capros or Antigonia, that have a projecting snout.