hogfish definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: large wrasse ... Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout [syn: hogfish, hog snapper, Lachnolaimus maximus] 2: found from Long Island southward [syn: pigfish, hogfish, Orthopristis chrysopterus] Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1734 a large ... l.), an ethiostomoid fish, or darter (Percina caprodes); -- called also hogfish and rockfish. Log reel (Naut.), the reel on which the ... on the southern coasts of the United States; -- called also hogfish, and pigfish. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Pigfish Pig"fish`, n ... one of several species of salt-water grunts; -- called also hogfish. (b) A sculpin. The name is also applied locally ...
... Achoerodus gouldii] 2: found from Long Island southward [syn: pigfish, hogfish, Orthopristis chrysopterus] Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1860 a saltwater ... on the southern coasts of the United States; -- called also hogfish, and pigfish. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Pigfish Pig"fish`, n ... one of several species of salt-water grunts; -- called also hogfish. (b) A sculpin. The name is also applied locally to ...