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UK
/bˈɒksfɪʃ/
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NOUN
- any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates
How To Use boxfish In A Sentence
- First, they point out, far from being slowpokes, boxfishes can scoot over a reef at six body lengths per second - an impressive speed by any standard.
- Wrasse, butterflies, boxfish, porcupines and pufferfish round out the picture, while lyretail grouper, Napoleon wrasse and rock cod mix with regal, map and other angelfish.
- Moreover, Bartol and company managed to visualize the flow of water around a boxfish by placing neutrally buoyant beads in the water and filming the beads as they swept past plastic models of the fish.
- Mercedes engineers constructed a model of the boxfish, put it in a wind tunnel in Germany, found it to be unusually aerodynamic and turned the idea behind the model into a vehicular prototype. Coolest Concept Cars 2006 © Aston...
- Squid, barracuda, and grouper were prevalent, as were French and Queen angelfish, small parrotfish, trumpet, and boxfishes.
- Dottie, a boxfish who lives at a British aquarium, passes the time playing with a giant die, her only "companion. Undefined
- Corals and Corals and schools of fish meeting schools of fish at more corals, octopus everywhere, lionfishes, stonefishes, nudibranks, a seahorse, tiny cube boxfishes, pufferfishes, corals … it was really hard to see everything, because a) there is so incredible much to see and b) there is fish everywhere. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
- Corals and Corals and schools of fish meeting schools of fish at more corals, octopus everywhere, lionfishes, stonefishes, nudibranks, a seahorse, tiny cube boxfishes, pufferfishes, corals … it was really hard to see everything, because a) there is so incredible much to see and b) there is fish everywhere. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
- In most of the boxfishes, vortex circulation increased from the posterior 3/4 of the carapace to the posterior edge of the carapace, but surface pressures along the carapace did not decrease.
- In fact, speed is not a requirement for maneuverability as illustrated with the rigid-bodied boxfish and the fast start acceleration of fish from rest.