SPINY PUFFER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spiny puffer mean? • SPINY PUFFER (noun)
The noun SPINY PUFFER has 1 sense:
1. puffers having rigid or erectile spines
Familiarity information: SPINY PUFFER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SPINY PUFFER (noun)
Meaning:
Puffers having rigid or erectile spines
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("spiny puffer" is a kind of...):
plectognath; plectognath fish (tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spiny puffer"):
Diodon hystrix; porcupine fish; porcupinefish (spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters)
balloonfish; Diodon holocanthus (similar to but smaller than porcupinefish)
burrfish (any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines)
Holonyms ("spiny puffer" is a member of...):
Diodontidae; family Diodontidae (spiny puffers)
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