Pigfish \Pig"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any one of several species of salt-water grunts; -- called also {hogfish}. (b) A sculpin. The name is also applied locally to several other fishes.
pigfish n 1: found around the Great Barrier Reef [syn: {giant pigfish}, {Achoerodus gouldii}] 2: found from Long Island southward [syn: {hogfish}, {Orthopristis chrysopterus}] [also: {pigfishes} (pl)]