pigfish
/ˈpɪgfɪʃ/noun
(复同单, 或-fishes)
1
- a deep-bodied scaleless fish with a protuberant snout, which lives in the cooler seas of the southern hemisphere虻鲉科鱼。
1.1
- Family Congiopodidae: several genera and species.虻鲉科: 数属, 数种。
2
- usu. with modifier any of a number of other marine fishes, especially one that grunts石鲈。
2.1
- a western Atlantic grunt (Orthopristis chrysoptera, family Pomadasyidae).猪石鲈(拉丁名Orthopristis chrysoptera,石鲈科)。
2.2
- Austral. a wrasse or groper (genera Bodianus and Achoerodus, family Labridae).〈澳〉隆头鱼(普提鱼属及蓝唇鱼属, 隆头鱼科)。比较HOGFISH.