pigfish

N ปลา  Grunt

PIGFISH

PIGFISH Pig "fish `, n. (Zoöl.)(a ) Any one of several species of salt-water grunts; -- called also hogfish. (b ) A sculpin. The name is also applied locally to several other fishes.

pigfish

pig fish |ˈpigˌfiSH ˈpɪɡˌfɪʃ | ▶noun ( pl. same or pigfishes ) 1 a deep-bodied scaleless fish with a protuberant snout, living in the cooler seas of the southern hemisphere. [Family Congiopodidae: several genera and species. ] 2 [ usu. with modifier ] any of a number of other marine fishes, esp. one that grunts. [● a western Atlantic grunt (Orthopristis chrysoptera, family Pomadasyidae ).]

pigfish

pig |fish ▶noun ( pl. same or pigfishes ) 1 a deep-bodied scaleless fish with a protuberant snout, which lives in the cooler seas of the southern hemisphere. ●Family Congiopodidae: several genera and species. 2 [ usu. with modifier ] any of a number of other marine fishes, especially one that grunts: ● a western Atlantic grunt (Orthopristis chrysoptera, family Pomadasyidae ). ● Austral. /NZ a wrasse or groper (genera Bodianus and Achoerodus, family Labridae ). Compare with hogfish .