hogfish

English

Etymology

hog +‎ fish

Noun

hogfish (plural hogfishes or hogfish)

1. Lachnolaimus maximus, an edible species of wrasse, found in the Caribbean.
2. Several of the species of Bodianus.
3. The pigfish or sailor's choice, Orthopristis chrysoptera, or other species in genus Orthospristis.
4. Percina caprodes, an American freshwater fish, the log perch, rockfish, a kind of darter.
5. A large, red, spiny-headed, European marine fish (Scorpaena scrofa).
   • 1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], →ISBN, page 3:

     The fishermen crowding in the cafés were also waiting for the end of the storm, when the fish, reassured, would rise to the surface after the bait. Soles, hog fish and skate were returning from their nocturnal expeditions. Day was now breaking.

6. A pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides, ranging from Massachusetts to Texas.
7. A grunt, Haemulon parra.