hog-fish
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hog-fish noun. , (usu.) same. L16.
[from HOG noun + FISH noun1.]
A manatee. L16-E17.
A porpoise. Only in 17.
a. The orange scorpion fish, Scorpaena scrofa, of the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic. Now rare or obsolete. E17.
b. Any of various fishes of American waters; esp. (a) a large edible wrasse, Lachnolaimus maximus; (b) a pigfish, Orthopristis chrysoptera. M18.