pigfish

noun (plural same or pigfishes)

• 1a deep-bodied scaleless fish with a protuberant snout, which lives in the cooler seas of the southern hemisphere.

  • Family Congiopodidae: several genera and species

• 2 [usually with modifier] any of a number of other marine fishes, especially one that grunts:

  • a western Atlantic grunt (Orthopristis chrysoptera, family Pomadasyidae). Australian/NZa wrasse or groper (genera Bodianus and Achoerodus, family Labridae).Compare with hogfish