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Hogfish

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Noun

1. hog snapper, hogfish, lachnolaimus maximus

large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout

2. hogfish, orthopristis chrysopterus, pigfish

found from Long Island southward

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Hogfish

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noun plural -fish or -fishes
1. 
a wrasse, Lachnolaimus maximus, that occurs in the Atlantic off the SE coast of North America. The head of the male resembles a pig's snout
2.  another name for pigfish (sense 1)

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Hogfish

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nounWord forms: plural ˈhogˌfish or ˈhogˌfishes
1. 
any of several fishes whose head supposedly resembles that of a hog, as a pigfish
2. 
a bright-red, edible wrasse (Lachnolaimus maximus) found off the SE coast of the U.S.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Hogfish

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n. pl. hogfish or hog·fish·es
1. An edible reddish wrasse (Lachnolaimus maximus) of the western Atlantic Ocean, having a long snout and long spines on the dorsal fin. Also called hog snapper.
2. Any of various wrasses of the genus Bodianus.

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